Canon Update

[somarium_lords]

There are two ways a person can canon update their character:

1. Dream Update: Basically the character has a dream of everything that happens up until the point you want to update them to. However, they still will not have experienced the actual events and it will be more like an amnesiac watch a film of their life, or someone telling them what had

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Kara Thrace||1/2

[havemyflaws]

[Player name] Mhairi
[Personal Journal] uglytidings

[Character name] Kara Thrace
[Character Journal] havemyflaws
[Canon point that you are updating to] Season 4, episode 14 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

[Background]
While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the Ionian nebula, Lee (who has since left the Colonial Military) detects a bogey on DRADIS. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.

The pristine Viper Mark II that comes alongside is flown by Thrace herself. A shocked and confused Lee Adama (now a civilian) listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to Earth and she has returned to take the Fleet to it.
After the battle at the nebula, she returns to Galactica where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of Earth, but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Further complicating her claim is the fact that her Viper is nearly pristine, as if it had just been built. Despite passing a medical examination by Doctor Sherman Cottle, almost everyone-especially Roslin-thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.

When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point.

Thrace is eventually subdued by Colonial Marines and imprisoned in the brig. Lee visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for Colonial One. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of Demetrius, and a crew including Karl Agathon and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth.

Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her.

Kara Thrace||2/2

[havemyflaws]

When a Leoben Conoy copy comes aboard Demetrius with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship. The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon Hybrid, who repeats the first Hybrid's prophecy and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox Number Three to learn what she knows of the Final Five. After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the Viper she returned in and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the Cylon rebels. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city

Thrace and Leoben Conoy explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a Colonial Viper-the same Viper that Thrace flew into the gas giant. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper, with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover that the carcass inside the cockpit is hers. Thrace reveals to Conoy that the Hybrid aboard the rebel baseship called her the "Harbinger of Death." Conoy has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to Galactica. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered.

[Personality]
Kara upon her return is more distracted and consumed by her destiny (moreso the implications) and finding Earth. She's also dealing with the knowledge that her husband is a Cylon, that people do not trust her and that when she finally leads everyone to Earth, it's been destroyed and that weighs on her. She's likely to have a shorter temper and be prone to a lot of drinking and trying to make sense of things and wondering about just what the hell she actually is and what the prophecy of the Hybrid meant. There are times when she may be preoccupied with painting, various parts of the Sacred Scrolls and trying to piece everything together. She's going to be more antagonistic too and liable to get into fights.

[Abilities]
None.

[Other important stuff]
Kara is very much dead although she has no clue what she is and neither does Leoben Conoy, the Cylon model. She is definitely not a Virtual Being and it is possible that she's an Angel, sent to guide humanity to Earth. It's also clear that Kara herself does not know what she is and that's very difficult for her.

[Any questions?] Are there any specific rules for dead people in Somarium?

[somarium_lords]

Your Canon Update has been acknowledged o/ Remember, when your character is on hold, you can't make any tags or threads (except for anything backdated) until June 23.

There really aren't any rules for dead people who come into Somarium. They are brought in and are treated as if they were alive and will fill more or less like they did before they died. They can come in with any wounds or reminds of what killed them, but it's also optional to have them completely healed. That's up to the player's discretion. Does that help?

If you ever have any additional questions, feel free to contact one of us or comment here.