Colonial Karl Agathon

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Karl Agathon
**Type**: Lieutenant
**Species**: Human
**Height**: meters
**Weight**:
**Gender**: Male

**Dexterity**: 2D+2

* Archaic Guns: 4D+2
* Artillery: 3D+1
* Brawling Parry: 5D+1
* Dodge: 8D
* Firearm: 4D+2
* Grenade: 3D+1
* Missile Weapon: 3D+1
* Pick Pocket: 4D
* Running: 6D
* Vehicle Firearm: 3D+1

**Knowledge**: 2D+1

* Bureaucracy: 3D+2
* Business: 3D+2
* Cultures: 3D+2
* Intimidation: 3D+2
* Law Enforcement: 3D+2
* Scholar: 3D
* Streetwise: 3D+2
* Survival: 3D+2
* Tactics: 3D+2
* Value: 3D
* Willpower: 3D+2

**Mechanical**: 2D+1

* Archaic Starship Piloting: 3D+2
* Astrogation: 7D
* Capital Ship Gunnery: 3D
* Capital Ship Piloting: 3D+2
* Communications: 5D+2
* Ground Vehicle Operation: 3D+2
* Sensors: 3D+2
* Space Transports: 3D+2
* Starfighter Piloting: 3D+2
* Starship Gunnery: 3D

**Perception**: 2D

* Bargain: 3D+2
* Command: 3D+2
* Forgery: 2D+2
* Gambling: 3D+2
* Hide: 3D+2
* Investigation: 3D+2
* Persuasion: 3D+2
* Search: 3D+2
* Sneak: 3D+2

**Strength**: 3D+1

* Brawling: 6D
* Climbing/Jumping: 6D
* Lifting: 6D
* Stamina: 6D
* Swimming: 6D

**Technical**: 2D

* Computer Programming/Repair: 3D
* Demolitions: 2D+2
* First Aid: 2D+2
* Security: 3D+2

**Move**: 10
**Force Sensitive**: No
**Force Points**:
**Dark Side Points**:
**Character Points**:

**Gear**:

**Notes**:

* Idealist: Helo doesn’t perceive himself as naïve. He does, however, keep a positive outlook that can be a source of strength as well as a weakness exploitable by others. He believes in a greater good, and is willing to do his part to help it along.
* Trusting: Generally, Helo wants to believe in people and takes what he is told at face value.

**Description**: Karl “Helo” Agathon manages to keep a mostly positive outlook even when facing overwhelming odds and approaching doom. He is competent, brave, and fiercely loyal. Unfortunately, Helo is also somewhat naïve and a bit too trusting.

Most pilots and their brethren only go by their call signs while in the air, but Karl Agathon’s name causes too many tongues to trip, so the members of the Galactica crew call him Helo—on duty or off. Helo served for a while as ECO aboard Raptor 478, under pilot Sharon “Boomer” Valerii. Even though Helo wanted to be more than just her ECO, he kept his feelings quiet knowing that she was trying to maintain a secret relationship with the deck chief, Galen Tyrol.

Boomer and Helo were escorting Galactica’s last Viper squadron back to Caprica when the Cylons attacked. The Vipers were completely destroyed. Valerii and Agathon’s Raptor was hit by a missile that damaged the ship and injured Helo’s leg. They set down on Caprica for repairs, soon encountering refugees fleeing from the destruction of the major cities.

The Fleet officers took what survivors that could fit on the Raptor and prepared to lift off. Then Helo recognized a famous face, Doctor Gaius Baltar. Convinced that Dr. Baltar could be far more useful to the survival of the human race than a simple ECO, Helo offered up his seat. He never thought twice about sacrificing his own life for the greater good, and he flatly rejected Boomer’s objections.

Of course, Helo’s story wasn’t far from over. The refugees scattered and after a week, he found himself completely on his own. The antiradiation meds in his survival kit allowed him to survive, but time was running out. All seemed to be lost when he was captured by a Cylon
patrol in the wilderness. Out of the blue, Boomer returned and rescued him. She told Helo that she couldn’t bear the thought of leaving him alone to die on Caprica. The two of them now struggle to survive and escape the Cylons on Caprica.

**Source**:

* Battlestar Galactica RPG (page 39)
* thedemonapostle