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Player Information:
Name: Megan
Journal: urbaninja
Method of Contact: PM personal LJ or Character journal please.
Previous characters: None
Character Information:
Full Name: Leoben Conoy
Series: Battlestar Galactica
Canon point: 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion. Just after leaving Kara.
Age: BSG sucks with ages, so I estimate he’s somewhere in his 30s but I have no way of confirming that.
Species: Cylon - a humanoid robot that is virtually indistinguishable from humans. In other words, at face value, you can’t tell that he’s a machine, that only comes with extensive testing/him outright admitting it.
Appearance/PB: See icon. The actor is Callum Keith Rennie
Appearance upon arrival: See icon. He’ll be a bit more dishelved though, since he just came from a particularly devastating situation.
History:
Previous RP memories: None
Bringing someone along?: Nope
Character History:
Note: Two copies of Leoben are referred to in this section, although I will only be playing the second one mentioned. The first is there to give Leoben some more canon and to support aspects of his personality.
Leoben Conoy is the second Cylon model out of eight created by the Final Five Cylons, a race of humanoid robots. Not much is known about his actions pre-series, but cannon has given us some hints, namely that his memory has been tampered with, making him unaware of the identities of the Final Five or the Seventh Cylon model. There are also suggestions that various other Leoben models have infiltrated the colonies.
He is first met when the Galactica escapes to the Ragnar Achorage Station to rearm itself and return to combat the Cylons attacking the colonies. He poses as an arms dealer, but was really sent there to delay Adama from getting back to his ship, and possibly kill him. After revealing his true nature to Adama, they fight, and Leoben is eventually killed. This is the first of many times that Leoben will die throughout the series.
He is next encountered in the colonial fleet, meeting with the other cylons as to how to proceed, since they failed in their initial attempt at destroying humanity. Leoben is charged with stowing away on a ship, and developing methods to disrupt their communications. However, as he does this Leoben intercepts radio transmissions from the pilots, and becomes enamored by one Kara Thrace. Leoben begins to have visions about her, and comes to the conclusion that she may be important in the future. He is later found on the ship and at the President’s insistence, interrogated by Kara Thrace. It is here that their long association begins. He reveals that he has hidden a nuclear warhead on one of the ships in the fleet that it is set to go off in eight hours. Kara attempts to interrogate him about its location, her methods eventually leading to torture, but he refuses to give in. It is here that he reveals his spiritual nature, as well as his prophetic abilities, foretelling events that happen later in the series. President Roslin stops the interrogation, and Leoben’s story about the bomb is proven to be a bluff. He reveals this when the President offers him asylum. However, the President chooses to have him airlocked instead after he tells her that “Adama is a cylon”, a cryptic statement that she has no way of verfiying.
After that, not much is seen of Leoben. It is suggested that after getting airlocked, he did download and told the other cylons what happened to him. It is also speculated that he had some involvement with the resistance on Caprica, but exactly what kind of involvement is unknown. He is next seen on New Caprica, when the Cylons begin their occupation, asking for the location of Kara Thrace.
He is successful in his quest, and takes Kara captive, forcing her to live with him in an apartment he has created, in a hope that she will submit to him and accept her destiny. In four months, he is killed five times, and Kara refuses to listen to him. He attempts to change tactics by introducing a child into the mix, hoping to suggest they connect as a family. He causes Kara to believe that the child is theirs, a cylon-human hybrid. When the Galactica returns to rescue the people on New Caprica, Kara is rescued, but she returns to save the child, and is confronted by Leoben. He is killed once again.
Leoben has a few more brief appearances. When the Cylons confront the Colonials over the Eye of Jupiter, he is seen discussing with the other models the fate of D’anna, and whether or not to box her, put her memories in cold storage. He eventually votes to do this, as D’anna is disrupting the cylon’s way of life.
The Cylons confront the Humans once again at the Ionian nebula, the next step on the way to Earth. During the confusion, the Final Five cylons awaken to their true nature and the Cylon raiders become aware of this. They call off their attack much to the confusion of the human models. The Twos, Sixes, and Eights become convinced that the Five are in the fleet, and that’s why the raiders stop attacking. Leoben disagrees with Cavil, the leader, about lobotomizing the Raiders, since they are sentient beings. After the raiders are lobotomized, the Twos, Sixes, and Eights, give the Cylon centurions free will, bringing about a civil war. Leoben goes off in search of the Colonial fleet in order to propose a truce with the humans.
He manages to find Kara, who had taken a ship looking for the way to earth. He manages to convince her of both her destiny and a potential truce, and takes her to the Basestar. It is there that Kara learns that she is the “harbinger of death and will lead them all to their end,” from the basestar’s hybrid. When the cylons eventually meet up with the fleet, Leoben acts with Natalie to propose a plan to destroy the resurrection hub and bring the threes back online in order to get the way to Earth. They are successful, and manage to find Earth. Earth however, is a nuclear wasteland. This is because it belonged to the Thirteenth tribe, who were cylons, and had the same thing happen to them as the colonies, with a robotic uprising. Leoben goes off in search of a colonial signal with Kara, and they find her corpse. Leoben also learns that Kara is the “harbinger of death” and that those words came from the hybrid. Realizing he is wrong, Leoben flees. It is after he flees that Leoben will enter Splendor.
Personality:
When Leoben is first encountered in canon, he appears to have a manipulative personality. This makes him a very troublesome opponent, because he mixes truth with lies, and uses mind games to achieve what he wants. This is seen in his first appearance, where he leads Commander Adama through the Ragnar Station, presumably with plans to kill or delay him. He also uses these abilities in his second appearance, where he suggests that he may have planted a nuclear bomb on one of the ships in the fleet.
His second appearance sends Leoben’s personality in a different direction, however. He reveals that he has a very spiritual side to him, He has a devout faith in God (referred to as the One true God/Cylon God, as opposed to the God of our modern day religions), and his divine plan. It is also through God, that he believes he is granted the ability to see patterns, which enable him to have visions about the future. Leoben is also obsessed with destiny, in particular, that of Kara Thrace’s, which he believes he plays a role in. Of all the models, Leoben is considered the most spiritual, and his obsession with Kara Thrace has earned him a bit of disdain.
Leoben has also shown a bit of a pragmatic side to him, particularly among the Cylons. While not a leader among the Cylons, his opinions appear to have some sort of authority. An example of this is when an individual cylon voted against her model. He was the one asked if this particular instance was allowed. Later, he is also seen guiding the leader of the rebel cylons, helping her in her decisions. His thoughts are usually with Kara and her destiny first and foremost however.
He has a calm personality, experiencing but rarely showing emotion unless something causes him to. An example of this is when he and Kara Thrace encounter her corpse on the ruined Earth, coupled with the realization that he may have been wrong about her destiny (and subsequently God’s plan). His expression clearly shows fear and he retreats from her. Despite having the ability to resurrect, Leoben does fear death (as Cylons will die permanently if they are too far away from a Basestar/resurrection ship). He will go so far as to make bluffs in order to spare himself, such as suggesting that he has hidden a bomb on one of the ships in the fleet. Unlike some of the other Cylons, Leoben is always searching for a way to be more human, as opposed to machine. He believes in an alliance between humans and cylons, going so far as to go looking for Kara Thrace to bring her to the Basestar, and giving Laura Roslin a means to communicate with the fleet during a mutiny
Extra:
Character Abilities:
General Cylon Abilities:
Resurrection - When cylons die, their physically body dies, but the mind is transferred to another body through a process called downloading, which effectively makes them immortal. However, Leoben is coming from a canon point in which resurrection has been eliminated, not to mention he wouldn’t be able to download anyway even if he was coming from a canon point in which he could. It’s mentioned here simply because Leoben has died 8+ times in canon and that does tend to have an effect.
Augmented strength/speed/endurance - Since they are machines, Cylons do have super-human strength and speed, as well as endurance. They are meant to be better than humans. The non-canonical novels also suggest that they are able to lip read and have a thorough knowledge of human anatomy.
Projection - Almost like a really immersive daydream, projection allows the cylons to see themselves somewhere other than where they are.
Abilities Specific to Leoben:
Patterns - Leoben can see the patterns that bind the universe (as he defines it in canon). From my understanding, it seems to be that he can see every moment before it happens, ie: If you were going to trip, he would see you falling before it’s even happened or he’d know what you were going to say before you said it. It’s also something that’s on consistently.
Visions - Leoben is also granted abilities to see the future, though these are less frequent (Happening at least 3 times in canon). They come in the forms of visions of future events that will happen, and Leoben believes that it is partly his responsibility to make sure that they do. There is the sense, however, that he may be interpreting something wrong or for his own agenda.
Leoben also appears to have some mechanical skills, especially in creating/fixing radio and other communication devices.
Possessions: None
Anything else: Because of his ability to see patterns, Leoben can get a sense of other people’s lives through what he sees. As a result, he tends to pick up on others who have destinies or are chosen ones, with the intention that he should guide them to the completion of their destiny.
I am aware that both abilities are slightly godmody, and tend to tone it down in games to avoid this. I also include a permissions post and anything extensive to with visions would be plotted out.
Also, given his canon point, he probably will be avoiding his abilities at first.
Samples:
Action/Communication thread/post sample:
Note: Takes place after he’s been in the city for a few days]
[He’s returned to the beach after a few days in Splendor, now that he can see it with more clarity.]
[Said more to himself]It’s like the beaches on Picon
It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere so peaceful, and have it be reality. I was starting to doubt that such a place existed.
Perhaps I might be able to make this place my home, for the time being. Maybe this is a way to defy to my fate
Log/Prose sample:
He sits on the beach, staring out at the ocean, not really hearing the sounds of it hitting the shore. He stares simply because it’s something to look at, and it prevents him from projecting the field where they had found the ruined viper. Leoben thinks that by preventing the projection from happening, he can stop thinking about the incident, and maybe, just maybe, he can put it behind him.
But it’s harder than that. His mind is still swarming with questions. How could he have been so wrong? Was that really God’s plan? Had he interpreted everything he’d ever seen or heard incorrectly? What did that mean for his role? If he had been so wrong, did that mean he even had a right to see the patterns anymore? So many questions, and answers that he wasn’t sure how to obtain.
A blast of salt water hits him, and for what seems like the first time, Leoben realizes where he is, and that the tide is coming in. He scrambles to stand up and move farther up the beach, before it hits him that this was not the same beach on the ruined planet he was before. Turning, and looking around, he knows now that he is no longer on Earth, but is somewhere else entirely. For one of the few times in his life, Leoben is actually surprised. Where am I? is all he can wonder now.
Name: Megan
Journal: urbaninja
Method of Contact: PM personal LJ or Character journal please.
Previous characters: None
Character Information:
Full Name: Leoben Conoy
Series: Battlestar Galactica
Canon point: 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion. Just after leaving Kara.
Age: BSG sucks with ages, so I estimate he’s somewhere in his 30s but I have no way of confirming that.
Species: Cylon - a humanoid robot that is virtually indistinguishable from humans. In other words, at face value, you can’t tell that he’s a machine, that only comes with extensive testing/him outright admitting it.
Appearance/PB: See icon. The actor is Callum Keith Rennie
Appearance upon arrival: See icon. He’ll be a bit more dishelved though, since he just came from a particularly devastating situation.
History:
Previous RP memories: None
Bringing someone along?: Nope
Character History:
Note: Two copies of Leoben are referred to in this section, although I will only be playing the second one mentioned. The first is there to give Leoben some more canon and to support aspects of his personality.
Leoben Conoy is the second Cylon model out of eight created by the Final Five Cylons, a race of humanoid robots. Not much is known about his actions pre-series, but cannon has given us some hints, namely that his memory has been tampered with, making him unaware of the identities of the Final Five or the Seventh Cylon model. There are also suggestions that various other Leoben models have infiltrated the colonies.
He is first met when the Galactica escapes to the Ragnar Achorage Station to rearm itself and return to combat the Cylons attacking the colonies. He poses as an arms dealer, but was really sent there to delay Adama from getting back to his ship, and possibly kill him. After revealing his true nature to Adama, they fight, and Leoben is eventually killed. This is the first of many times that Leoben will die throughout the series.
He is next encountered in the colonial fleet, meeting with the other cylons as to how to proceed, since they failed in their initial attempt at destroying humanity. Leoben is charged with stowing away on a ship, and developing methods to disrupt their communications. However, as he does this Leoben intercepts radio transmissions from the pilots, and becomes enamored by one Kara Thrace. Leoben begins to have visions about her, and comes to the conclusion that she may be important in the future. He is later found on the ship and at the President’s insistence, interrogated by Kara Thrace. It is here that their long association begins. He reveals that he has hidden a nuclear warhead on one of the ships in the fleet that it is set to go off in eight hours. Kara attempts to interrogate him about its location, her methods eventually leading to torture, but he refuses to give in. It is here that he reveals his spiritual nature, as well as his prophetic abilities, foretelling events that happen later in the series. President Roslin stops the interrogation, and Leoben’s story about the bomb is proven to be a bluff. He reveals this when the President offers him asylum. However, the President chooses to have him airlocked instead after he tells her that “Adama is a cylon”, a cryptic statement that she has no way of verfiying.
After that, not much is seen of Leoben. It is suggested that after getting airlocked, he did download and told the other cylons what happened to him. It is also speculated that he had some involvement with the resistance on Caprica, but exactly what kind of involvement is unknown. He is next seen on New Caprica, when the Cylons begin their occupation, asking for the location of Kara Thrace.
He is successful in his quest, and takes Kara captive, forcing her to live with him in an apartment he has created, in a hope that she will submit to him and accept her destiny. In four months, he is killed five times, and Kara refuses to listen to him. He attempts to change tactics by introducing a child into the mix, hoping to suggest they connect as a family. He causes Kara to believe that the child is theirs, a cylon-human hybrid. When the Galactica returns to rescue the people on New Caprica, Kara is rescued, but she returns to save the child, and is confronted by Leoben. He is killed once again.
Leoben has a few more brief appearances. When the Cylons confront the Colonials over the Eye of Jupiter, he is seen discussing with the other models the fate of D’anna, and whether or not to box her, put her memories in cold storage. He eventually votes to do this, as D’anna is disrupting the cylon’s way of life.
The Cylons confront the Humans once again at the Ionian nebula, the next step on the way to Earth. During the confusion, the Final Five cylons awaken to their true nature and the Cylon raiders become aware of this. They call off their attack much to the confusion of the human models. The Twos, Sixes, and Eights become convinced that the Five are in the fleet, and that’s why the raiders stop attacking. Leoben disagrees with Cavil, the leader, about lobotomizing the Raiders, since they are sentient beings. After the raiders are lobotomized, the Twos, Sixes, and Eights, give the Cylon centurions free will, bringing about a civil war. Leoben goes off in search of the Colonial fleet in order to propose a truce with the humans.
He manages to find Kara, who had taken a ship looking for the way to earth. He manages to convince her of both her destiny and a potential truce, and takes her to the Basestar. It is there that Kara learns that she is the “harbinger of death and will lead them all to their end,” from the basestar’s hybrid. When the cylons eventually meet up with the fleet, Leoben acts with Natalie to propose a plan to destroy the resurrection hub and bring the threes back online in order to get the way to Earth. They are successful, and manage to find Earth. Earth however, is a nuclear wasteland. This is because it belonged to the Thirteenth tribe, who were cylons, and had the same thing happen to them as the colonies, with a robotic uprising. Leoben goes off in search of a colonial signal with Kara, and they find her corpse. Leoben also learns that Kara is the “harbinger of death” and that those words came from the hybrid. Realizing he is wrong, Leoben flees. It is after he flees that Leoben will enter Splendor.
Personality:
When Leoben is first encountered in canon, he appears to have a manipulative personality. This makes him a very troublesome opponent, because he mixes truth with lies, and uses mind games to achieve what he wants. This is seen in his first appearance, where he leads Commander Adama through the Ragnar Station, presumably with plans to kill or delay him. He also uses these abilities in his second appearance, where he suggests that he may have planted a nuclear bomb on one of the ships in the fleet.
His second appearance sends Leoben’s personality in a different direction, however. He reveals that he has a very spiritual side to him, He has a devout faith in God (referred to as the One true God/Cylon God, as opposed to the God of our modern day religions), and his divine plan. It is also through God, that he believes he is granted the ability to see patterns, which enable him to have visions about the future. Leoben is also obsessed with destiny, in particular, that of Kara Thrace’s, which he believes he plays a role in. Of all the models, Leoben is considered the most spiritual, and his obsession with Kara Thrace has earned him a bit of disdain.
Leoben has also shown a bit of a pragmatic side to him, particularly among the Cylons. While not a leader among the Cylons, his opinions appear to have some sort of authority. An example of this is when an individual cylon voted against her model. He was the one asked if this particular instance was allowed. Later, he is also seen guiding the leader of the rebel cylons, helping her in her decisions. His thoughts are usually with Kara and her destiny first and foremost however.
He has a calm personality, experiencing but rarely showing emotion unless something causes him to. An example of this is when he and Kara Thrace encounter her corpse on the ruined Earth, coupled with the realization that he may have been wrong about her destiny (and subsequently God’s plan). His expression clearly shows fear and he retreats from her. Despite having the ability to resurrect, Leoben does fear death (as Cylons will die permanently if they are too far away from a Basestar/resurrection ship). He will go so far as to make bluffs in order to spare himself, such as suggesting that he has hidden a bomb on one of the ships in the fleet. Unlike some of the other Cylons, Leoben is always searching for a way to be more human, as opposed to machine. He believes in an alliance between humans and cylons, going so far as to go looking for Kara Thrace to bring her to the Basestar, and giving Laura Roslin a means to communicate with the fleet during a mutiny
Extra:
Character Abilities:
General Cylon Abilities:
Resurrection - When cylons die, their physically body dies, but the mind is transferred to another body through a process called downloading, which effectively makes them immortal. However, Leoben is coming from a canon point in which resurrection has been eliminated, not to mention he wouldn’t be able to download anyway even if he was coming from a canon point in which he could. It’s mentioned here simply because Leoben has died 8+ times in canon and that does tend to have an effect.
Augmented strength/speed/endurance - Since they are machines, Cylons do have super-human strength and speed, as well as endurance. They are meant to be better than humans. The non-canonical novels also suggest that they are able to lip read and have a thorough knowledge of human anatomy.
Projection - Almost like a really immersive daydream, projection allows the cylons to see themselves somewhere other than where they are.
Abilities Specific to Leoben:
Patterns - Leoben can see the patterns that bind the universe (as he defines it in canon). From my understanding, it seems to be that he can see every moment before it happens, ie: If you were going to trip, he would see you falling before it’s even happened or he’d know what you were going to say before you said it. It’s also something that’s on consistently.
Visions - Leoben is also granted abilities to see the future, though these are less frequent (Happening at least 3 times in canon). They come in the forms of visions of future events that will happen, and Leoben believes that it is partly his responsibility to make sure that they do. There is the sense, however, that he may be interpreting something wrong or for his own agenda.
Leoben also appears to have some mechanical skills, especially in creating/fixing radio and other communication devices.
Possessions: None
Anything else: Because of his ability to see patterns, Leoben can get a sense of other people’s lives through what he sees. As a result, he tends to pick up on others who have destinies or are chosen ones, with the intention that he should guide them to the completion of their destiny.
I am aware that both abilities are slightly godmody, and tend to tone it down in games to avoid this. I also include a permissions post and anything extensive to with visions would be plotted out.
Also, given his canon point, he probably will be avoiding his abilities at first.
Samples:
Action/Communication thread/post sample:
Note: Takes place after he’s been in the city for a few days]
[He’s returned to the beach after a few days in Splendor, now that he can see it with more clarity.]
[Said more to himself]It’s like the beaches on Picon
It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere so peaceful, and have it be reality. I was starting to doubt that such a place existed.
Perhaps I might be able to make this place my home, for the time being. Maybe this is a way to defy to my fate
Log/Prose sample:
He sits on the beach, staring out at the ocean, not really hearing the sounds of it hitting the shore. He stares simply because it’s something to look at, and it prevents him from projecting the field where they had found the ruined viper. Leoben thinks that by preventing the projection from happening, he can stop thinking about the incident, and maybe, just maybe, he can put it behind him.
But it’s harder than that. His mind is still swarming with questions. How could he have been so wrong? Was that really God’s plan? Had he interpreted everything he’d ever seen or heard incorrectly? What did that mean for his role? If he had been so wrong, did that mean he even had a right to see the patterns anymore? So many questions, and answers that he wasn’t sure how to obtain.
A blast of salt water hits him, and for what seems like the first time, Leoben realizes where he is, and that the tide is coming in. He scrambles to stand up and move farther up the beach, before it hits him that this was not the same beach on the ruined planet he was before. Turning, and looking around, he knows now that he is no longer on Earth, but is somewhere else entirely. For one of the few times in his life, Leoben is actually surprised. Where am I? is all he can wonder now.