Tucker Clellan

Lieutenant Tucker "Duck" Clellan is a Viper pilot on circa who, according to Louanne Katraine, is one of the best pilots that Galactica has left to offer . Clellan is an ace with forty confirmed kills, according to Saul Tigh. 
Along with most of Galactica pilots, Clellan participates in the massacre of the disabled Cylon raiders and the celebration after the christening of the Blackbird .
Clellan is later part of the honor guard present on the hangar deck when Admiral Helena Cain arrives on Galactica . 
Later, Clellan takes part in a joint operation which required all available pilots from both the Galactica and Pegasus air wings . 
When Galactica provides protection for an asteroid mining operation, Clellan is among those taking part in regular picket patrols of the area. He is also present during marksmanship training for Viper nugget Joseph "Jo-Jo" Clark, commenting that his first attempt at the same training fared worse than Clark's. 
During a patrol of the Big Spud, Clellan unsuccessfully calls for Brent "BB" Baxton to retreat when their Vipers become on low fuel. Baxton, another nugget, ignores orders and engages a group of Raiders with fatal results. Additionally, Clellan helps account for Reilly's belongings after the pilot is killed by Scar and he is later present in the pilot's rec room when Kara Thrace toasts to the deceased pilots .
His significant other, Nora Farmer, is a fellow pilot that mustered out of the Colonial Fleet. Clellan is a smoker, but chooses to quit upon deciding to start a family with her . 
== New Caprica ==
When a colony on New Caprica is established, Clellan is in attendance during the ground breaking ceremony . As settlement operations transpire, both Clellan and Farmer muster out of Colonial Fleet service, as she wants to settle down and have a family. He is approached by Galen Tyrol and James Lyman to join the resistance efforts when New Caprica is occupied by Cylons, but declines over the desire to be a husband to Nora. 
Following Nora's death in a Cylon attack on a temple, Clellan becomes violently upset at the revelation that the resistance was hiding weapons there. After a brief period of mourning, he relents and agrees to join the insurgents. His first assignment as a resistance member involves infiltrating the New Caprica Police, where he keeps an eye on both the Cylons and their human collaborators . 
He later agrees to become a suicide bomber when the resistance learns about an NCP graduation ceremony, believing that Gaius Baltar will also be present. When Samuel Anders asks whether Clellan is committed, Clellan replies that, without Nora, he has nothing left to live for.
Despite Baltar's last-minute withdrawal from the ceremony, Clellan detonates his bomb, killing 33 people and several Cylons in the process . Subsequently, the Cylons begin a crackdown on all individuals thought to be resistance members. They orchestrate mass abductions and executions of suspected insurgents; surviving NCP members, lead by his former friend, Lyman, carry them out .
Later on Galactica, Lee Adama and Kara Thrace make a pact about where to place each other's photos on the wall of memories should either die. Adama requests to have his photo placed next to Duck and Nora, commenting: "Good card players. Nice way to spend eternity." 
==Notes==
* It can be inferred by 's apparent need to introduce himself to Clellan that he is a post-Fall addition to Galactica air wing. Given the pilots' close-knit community, the two would probably know each other had they served together before. He is possibly a refugee from another Colonial unit like Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo, or another one of the nuggets trained by Kara Thrace.
* Christian Tessier would later appear in Caprica as Francis.
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