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This article covers the various depictions of Apollo from the tie-in novelizations, comic books, and other media.
Berkley Novelizations
Background
In the Berkley novelizations, Apollo serves as Adama's eldest son and a captain aboard Galactica. Following the Battle of Cimtar and the subsequent Exodus, Apollo continues his duties as a Viper pilot while serving as stepfather to Boxey after Serina's death.
Post-Exodus Events
After returning from a dangerous mission with Starbuck and other pilots, Apollo discovers that Boxey has run away. Upon landing in Galactica's landing bay, Athena delivers the troubling news to Apollo and Adama. Boxey had left a handwritten note explaining his departure: "Dear Dad, I'm glad you're still alive. I was real worried. I had bad dreams and you always died. I'm afraid. I don't want to wait here and think about you getting killed. I'm going away. Then you don't have to worry about me again. I hope you never get killed. I'm taking Muffy with me. Your son, Boxey."[1]
Despite Adama's suggestion to organize search parties, Apollo immediately rushes off to find Boxey on his own. Joined by Athena, Starbuck, and Ensign Giles, Apollo searches through the lower tunnels of Galactica, areas that had been reported to have mysterious activity by technicians and engineers.[2]
The search becomes increasingly desperate as Apollo continues through the maze-like tunnel system. When an alert klaxon sounds, forcing the group to return to duty stations, Apollo faces a difficult decision between his personal duty to find Boxey and his official duty to Galactica. Athena convinces him that they must respond to the alert, noting the same conflict between personal and official duty that had driven Boxey away in the first place.[3]
Apollo later participates in combat missions flying the experimental SuperViper, partnered with Starbuck. During the launch sequence, Starbuck acknowledges their friendship, telling Apollo "it's been a hoot flying with you." Apollo and Starbuck successfully maneuver the SuperViper through intense Cylon opposition, performing evasive maneuvers that allow them to survive the initial enemy assault.[4]
Comics
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Pre-Exodus
During his teenage years in 7328, Apollo first meets Starbuck following Starbuck's attempt to secure Flight-Major Adama's sponsorship to the Academy. Starbuck does not react well to Adama's rejection and, witnessing this, an incensed Apollo pursues Starbuck on his turbocycle and challenges the orphan to a race near the treacherous Mount Colicos: if Starbuck loses, he leaves Adama and his family alone, but if Starbuck wins Apollo is to convince his father to be Starbuck's sponsor. The race turns badly, destroying both cycles and being rescued by a irritated Adama, but results in a life-long friendship ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #1)).
Sometime after entering the Academy, Apollo is stranded in a desert after a training exercise went wrong and is reported dead. Upon Apollo's return, Starbuck (who quits the Academy believing his friend to be dead) punches Apollo in the nose, forcing Zac to intercede by pulling Starbuck away from Apollo. After calming down, Starbuck and Apollo promise each other that, were they to both become Warriors, they would not mourn each other if the worst transpired. As this promise was extracted, Starbuck returns to the Academy (Classic Battlestar Galactica #2).
As a lieutenant aboard Galactica, he is assigned to oversee Starbuck, Boomer, and other new graduates as part of Blue Squadron in 7335 ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #1)). After Starbuck is framed for the murder of an ex-girlfriend, Kandi Trieste, by Osiris' daughter Diana, Apollo secures the assistance of a willing tylium trader named Baltar in order to rescue Starbuck from certain death ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #3)).
With Osiris and Diana subsequently unveiled as traitors working for the Cylons, and Starbuck's name cleared, Apollo is rewarded with a promotion to Captain by President Adar ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck #4)).
Post-Exodus
After the immediate exodus from their homeworlds, Apollo and his strike team of Lieutenants Boomer and Starbuck are tasked with recovering ancient Sagittarian texts that may help in their search for Earth. Located upon an outermost planet of their home solar system, the strike team utilizes Vipers equipped with stealth drives to approach the major city on Maytoria, but this results in catastrophe and forces Apollo to leave behind Boomer and Starbuck, believing them to be dead ((Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #1)).
Serina attempts to comfort Apollo fail as he resists, recalling his promise to Starbuck during their Academy days, and voicing his belief that were he to start mourning for all those who have lost their lives he would never recover ((Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #2)).
While his friends are later found to be alive ((Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #4)), he would later mourn Serina's death and assumes the role of Boxey's step-father ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse #3)).
Following the Battle at Galaxy's Edge, Apollo and Starbuck happen across a fight between Cylon forces while on reconnaissance near the planet Burania, leading to the discovery of an effective Cylon-created biological agent known as the nano-cybrid ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse #1)).
In a separate, later incident, Apollo leads a recon probe consisting of Boomer, Sheba and Starbuck to an unknown planet following their entrance into an unknown universe via a black hole ((Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #1)).
They discover a congregation of survivors lead by Baltar and hunted by Meclons. Upon discovering Iblis is somehow involved, Apollo finds himself receiving Adama's telepathic calls for help, prompting his contingent return to Galactica via stolen Meclon Raiders ((Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #2) — (Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #4)).
Returning to Galactica, he enters Adama's mind and finds Iblis. Believing him vanquished, Apollo leads Adama into consciousness, only to discover that Iblis has somehow possessed his father. With additional help, Apollo helps his father expel Iblis' control that, in turn, allows the Seraphs to appear and guide the Fleet out of Iblis' universe ((Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #5)).
By 7358, Apollo receives a promotion to Major and still lives with a teenage Boxey, who expresses his desire to become a Warrior as he becomes eligible for training ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #1) — (Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #5)).
The Many Deaths of Apollo
Following the discovery of the long-lost ship Taurella and the psionic Countess Sephoni, Major Apollo leads a recon flight to the coordinates that she divined were of Earth. The divination had been uncovered as a trick by the Cylons, leading to both wingmen's deaths and his subsequent injury and capture by the Cylons ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #1) — (Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #2)).
Apollo is written off for dead by Commander Adama, leaving the crew, family and friends in various degrees of mourning. Captain Starbuck takes it poorly, nearly killing Sephoni in the process before being subdued by security and after a stern talking to by Adama—expressly forbidding Starbuck from pursuing any search-and-rescue attempts ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #2) — (Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #3)).
The gifted psionic Xam divines Apollo's presence and, with a clandestine team lead by Starbuck, Athena and Sephoni, recover Apollo. Upon his return, Dr. Salik discovers a micro-fissure within Apollo's head caused by the trauma of the battle, thus rendering him unable to actively serve on the front lines ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #3) — (Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #4)). In order to reduce the risk of a stroke-event or brain hemorrhage, he is assigned to duty in core command and has a tumultuous time adjusting to the new role, despite assistance by Sergeant Omega and Doctor Madusa ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #5)).
Apollo's return allows the Cylon super basestar to track the Fleet, resulting in a pitched and fierce battle for the fate of humanity the likes not experienced for yahrens. During the pitched battle, Apollo and Athena work in tandem to organize the civilian ships' escape, while Sephoni divines a weakness in the super basestar's shielding that would allow a well-placed fusion missile to make its kill. Unable to communicate this due to Cylon jamming, Apollo makes the fateful decision to embark on his last Viper mission to deliver the kill-shot.
After making this kill, the basestar's explosion damages his Viper's controls, inexorably locking him into a collision course with a nearby star and sealing his fate. Outliving him are his father Adama and his sister Athena ((Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #6)).
Marvel Comics
Apollo is the eldest son of Adama and Ila, serving aboard Adama's battlestar Galactica alongside his siblings, Athena and Zac.
Apollo joins Zac on his ill-fated recon patrol, believing that the armistice would result in reduction of the Warrior corps via liesuron. Apollo detects an empty Cylon tanker, uncovering a mass of Cylon raiders and leading to a pursuit that ends with Zac losing an engine, and inevitably his life after Apollo relents to Zac's pleas to leave him behind, so the Colonial Fleet could be forewarned about the Cylons' deception.
Apollo later reports to his father, learning of Zac's death just short of the fleet, and later escorts his father to their burned-out family home on Caprica, leading to his first meeting with Serina and Boxey in the nearby foothills (Comics: Annihilation!).
Look-In Magazine
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Apollo is a Captain in the Colonial Fleet, serving as a Viper pilot and leader of Blue Squadron. He is the son of Commander Adama and the adopted father of Boxey.
He participates in the defense of Freighter Eighteen and later leads the successful counter-attack against a Cylon assault ship using a modified impulse microvator (Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 1).[5]
During an exploratory mission to the planet Thar, Apollo is the only person able to see Sarany, the planet's leader. He is shown the truth of her people's ability to manipulate time and is caught between their test of the Fleet's peaceful nature and his crewmates' belief that he has suffered a breakdown. He ultimately chooses his duty to the Fleet over Sarany's offer to stay with her in paradise (Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 2).[6]
Due to his natural immunity, Apollo takes temporary command of the transport Orestes during an outbreak of Parahelial Fever. After the ship is crippled and captured by the Cylons, he uses the alias "Captain Carter" and bluffs the Imperious Leader by claiming his ship is contaminated with a plague. He later escapes captivity and leads the crew and children of Orestes to safety (Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 3).[7]
Apollo leads the initial survey of the planet Zaroak, where he, Starbuck, and Athena are shot down and enslaved in Cylon-run mines. He works with the local resistance to orchestrate an escape and helps spark a planet-wide revolt (Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 4).[8]
Realm Press
Apollo and Sheba continue their relationship that blossomed into a romance during the events of the Battle at Galaxy's Edge, with Sheba asserting herself when Apollo tries to cut her out of the mission to explore a planet where they discover the Acmarans ((Comics: The Law of Volahd, Part 1)).
References
- ↑ Larson, Glen A.; Thurston, Robert (1988). Surrender the Galactica!. Ace Books, p. 33.
- ↑ Larson, Glen A.; Thurston, Robert (1988). Surrender the Galactica!. Ace Books, p. 108-109.
- ↑ Larson, Glen A.; Thurston, Robert (1988). Surrender the Galactica!. Ace Books, p. 109.
- ↑ Larson, Glen A.; Thurston, Robert (1988). Surrender the Galactica!. Ace Books, p. 210-212.
- ↑ Look-In #45 (1979) & #3 (1980), Storyline 1, Strips 3 & 13
- ↑ Look-In #45 (1979) & #3 (1980), Storyline 1, Strips 3 & 13
- ↑ Look-In #18 (1980), #35 (1980) & #42 (1980), Storyline 3, Strips 2, 19 & 26
- ↑ Look-In #30 (1980), #36 (1980) & #47 (1980), Storyline 4, Strips 1, 7 & 18
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