Colonial Laura Roslin

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Laura Roslin
**Type**: Commander in Chief
**Species**:
**Height**: meters
**Weight**:
**Gender**: Female

**Dexterity**: 2D

* Dodge: 3D+1
* Running: 3D+1

**Knowledge**: 3D+2

* Bureaucracy: 9D+2
* Business: 5D+2
* Cultures: 5D+2
* Intimidation: 5D+2
* Law Enforcement: 5D+2
* Scholar: 4D+2
* Scholar (S) Education: 8D
* Scholar (S) Government: 8D+2
* Scholar (S) Religion: 8D
* Streetwise: 4D+2
* Tactics: 5D+2
* Value: 4D+2

**Mechanical**: 2D+2

**Perception**: 3D+2

* Bargain: 5D+2
* Command: 8D+1
* Gambling: 5D+2
* Investigation: 5D+2
* Persuasion: 10D+1
* Persuasion (S) Empathy: 13D+2
* Search: 4D+2

**Strength**: 1D+2

* Climbing/Jumping: 3D
* Lifting: 3D
* Stamina: 3D
* Swimming: 3D

**Technical**: 3D+1

**Move**: 10
**Force Sensitive**: No
**Force Points**: 1-5
**Dark Side Points**: 0
**Character Points**: 5-15

**Gear**:

**Notes**:

* Addiction: Chamalla extract is a highly addictive, non-traditional treatment for cancer, but Roslin takes it as an alternative to the mind-numbing diloxin. She has become convinced that the visions she experiences while undergoing treatments are spiritual insights.
* Destiny: The President firmly believes that she is the “dying leader” written about in the sacred scrolls, and that it is her job to guide what is left of humanity to their new home on Earth. This sense of purpose guides all of her actions.
* Duty: Roslin is constantly reminded that her decisions not only affect the well-being of thousands of people, but their standard of living and levels of freedom. She bears the burden as best she can, but it can take its toll.
* Faith: Though her faith in the Lords of Kobol has only recently been renewed, Laura Roslin draws upon it when all else fails.
* Illness: Only a few people know of her disease, but just before the attack on the Twelve Colonies, Roslin was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer—the very disease that took her mother’s life. She does her best to put on a brave face and secretly takes chamalla extract to fight the cancer, but she is in fact terribly ill and will die sooner rather than later.
* Political Pull: As the President of the Twelve Colonies, Roslin has more political clout and connections than anyone in the fleet.
* Rival: Tom Zarek, a highly regarded and influential political prisoner, has called for elections to either re-affirm or reject Laura Roslin’s position as President. He works to support an alternate candidate, perhaps even offering himself. Roslin never knows when Zarek may cause her problems with his political machinations.
* So Say We All: Even with a soft voice and friendly disposition, Laura Roslin has a quality that commands attention and gets things done. She is a natural-born leader.

**Description**: Dismissed at first as simply “a schoolteacher,” Laura Roslin has proven herself an effective leader with the popular support of the people. She has even earned a grudging respect from most members of the military. Her public persona is sympathetic but tough. Only a chosen few have seen her in a moment of weakness. Roslin sets the safety and destiny of the fleet as her highest priority, and is willing to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to achieve that goal.

Laura Roslin was indeed once a schoolteacher, but she entered politics with Richard Adar. After twentyyears, Adar had assume the highest office in the Colonies, the Presidency, and Roslin was named the Secretary of Education. Her infatuation with Adar contributed to the fact she never married; she carried on a secret affair with the President for years. Shortly before the attack, Roslin received two pieces of devastating news: she was suffering from terminal breast cancer, and her recent actions during a teachers strike caused the President to ask for her resignation. She only had one last duty to perform—attend the decommissioning ceremony for an old warship, Battlestar Galactica.

The Cylons attacked while Laura was en route back to Caprica, and while everyone else panicked, she took control of the situation. Instead of immediately fleeing, she organized a search and rescue mission to find survivors. Her ship, a passenger liner designated Colonial Heavy 798, received a government transmission that identified her as the last surviving member of the Colonial government. As a result of an automated process set in motion by a destroyed government, Laura Roslin became President of the Twelve Colonies. She was sworn into office, and her ship was re-dubbed Colonial One.

Roslin quickly realized that Commander Adama of Battlestar Galactica was preparing a suicide assault against the Cylons, one that would certainly doom the few humans left alive. She was able to persuade him that retreat was the only option, and that the Galactica was the only defense for the civilian fleet.

Since the time of the attack, Roslin has worked tirelessly—despite the fact that she is very ill and nearly always exhausted—to serve the survivors in the fleet. After Commander Adama announced that the fleet would seek out a new safe home on Earth, she has become convinced that leading humanity’s survivors to the fabled 13th Colony is her destiny. Roslin takes chamalla extract as a treatment for her cancer, and she finds spiritual meaning in the drug-induced visions.

President Roslin respects and supports the military, and never fails to thank the men and women in service for their sacrifice and dedication. Even so, she is willing to challenge Commander Adama when necessary to maintain her role as commander-in-chief. Though she has come to like and respect Adama, their relationship goes from friendly to adversarial quickly. She believes in her duty and destiny, and will see it through regardless of what, or who, stands in her way.

**Source**:

* Battlestar Galactica (page 41)
* thedemonapostle