Parallels to Sire Uri?

[Colonel Archon]

Who else in the political turmoil it has been my sad fate to have to observe without the right of directly involving myself in it has perceived any parallels to Sire Uri, once he commenced to decay himself with drink and remembrance?
Or to President Adar, after he fell victim to the peace trap the Cylon Alliance had planted but before they actually sprang it on us?
Or, Lords Of Kobol forbid, to BALTAR???

For it has been the bitter experience of some of my former shipmates aboard the Pegasus, when we all served under Commander Cain and before their and my transfers to the Galactica, to have perceived some situations in the governance of our now lamented Colonies that proved to have extremely painful parallels to this ugly situation.

NO WONDER WE LOST THE WAR!!!

[Jubal]

Personally I've always loved your role play talk. Don't loose faith.

It is interesting when you look at the various characters of Battlestar. Many of them taking risks, and many of them paying off under the circumstances.

Commander Cain - A brilliant strategist who made a strategic retreat from the battle he was in. Sure he saved a battlestar and his crew but essentially fled from a battle. If the Cylons hadn't acted more than likely would have been court marshaled on his return to the colonies.

Commander Adama - shackled with the caravan of colonial ships, he was indeed quite brilliant in his own right. He took a considerable risk that paid off by launching his vipers at the peace accord. Had the Cylons actually been about peace him launching the vipers could have jeopardized any chance of peace. Later after the talks Adama would have been court marshalled or at least greatly reprimanded.

Baltar - Really makes you wonder what would make a man be so despite as to turn to the enemy of mankind and believe he and a colony of humans for him to lead would be spared. Mind you I believe the decision of Baltar was not anything to be excused, but it makes you wonder how he got there. Greed yes, but how about the politics and process that kept him from getting what his goal was. He had completely given up on working the system with humans and turned to Cylons. That should tell us something.

President Adar - A man striving for peace in a time of turmoil. As mentioned above things were in shambles it would seem for humanity, and after a 1000 yahrens of war, I believe humanity wondered what peace even was. It would be as mythical to them as King Arthur is to Terrans. Think about it. So humanity was war torn, the war was at a stand still but unsteady, so of course Adar jumped at a chance for peace. It would seem the only thing that Adar left out of the equation by the looks of it was to bring in someone with war experience like Adama. Adama tried to council him, but Adar probably saw warriors as a naysayer to thinking outside the 1000 yahren old established box of war. I get where he is coming from. Wouldn't we all like peace? The fact the Cylons were even talking about peace showed that this robotic race would consider more than just war. What Adar didn't know was that the Cylons needed a human to put that idea in their robotic brains. And it was just a phrase/idea that the Cylons used to achieve victory. All the same, the fact that Adar's quest for peace failed shows to me the colonial civilization was failing under the pressures of an ongoing war more than anything.

Sire Uri - Was simply a businessman. There would be other business men and women, some the colonies would need to call on for help and supplies in later stories. All I can say for Uri was he represented what a lot of people were thinking "Can we get back to some normallacy in our lives? Uri was not military, and would not have been privy to all that was going on. For him and many other colonists they knew they were attacked, then in a hurry they were shoved into tight quarters where they sat striving for what information they could gather on what was going on. Uri like many lost a lot in the exodus from the colonies. So I would imagine not knowing they were still very much in danger, as a good businessman he worked to make the best of the situation. In later stories the colonies would see a bit more normallacy as communication was established throughout the fleet, and activities like the games were continued to boost morale. Bear in mind, the colonists probably did not set foot on a planet after Carolon (I know I didn't spell that planet right) in the pilot story arc. So my thoughts on Uri, can't blame a business man and civilian for why and what he did, just his timing was terrible. Or was it? Did he have access to the military information of what was truly going on, or did he have access to information to what was going on and that was why he acted when he did. I honestly think he did not. Anyone with the information of the current situation would have run screaming. With slightly better timing Uri could have rebuilt his business and been a boost to the rebuilding of commerce in the colonies I'm sure.


So a lot of the classic series was not so grim or dark but a lot was inferred. Above all the characters above were rich and deep in a lot of ways. In a lot of ways, from what I've seen, humanity was already crumbling under the pressures of war. I applaud the colonies for holding up so long so well under such a long war.

But the signs are there. Under slighty different circumstances heroes could have been villians and visa versa.