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'''Dr. Daniel Graystone''' is a brilliant and wealthy [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprican]] computer engineer who creates the [[Cylons (RDM)|Colonial Cylons]]. He also is the CEO of a major Robotics firm and the inventor of the [[Holoband]], an internet-like network that uses [[wikipedia:virtual reality|Virtual Reality]] holographic avatars to replicate the real world to an astonishing fidelity and where people, especially teenagers, could live out fantasies with no harm coming to them. He is also the owner of the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]  [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] team franchise.
'''Dr. Daniel Graystone''' is the founder and CEO of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]'s [[Graystone Industries]], the inventor of the [[holoband]], and owner of the [[Caprica City Buccaneers]] in the years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He is the creator of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]].


Daniel is married to [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]] and is the father of [[Zoe Graystone|Zoe]], who is killed in a suicide bombing of a subway train by her boyfriend [[Ben Stark]]. As he grieves for his daughter's death, he discovers his daughter's best friend [[Lacy Rand]] in his daughter's room using Zoe's Holo-band "glasses". After that confrontation he cracks his daughter's password and uses Holo-band glasses to enter a Virtual Reality [[V-Club]] in which teenagers (presumably all across Caprica and probably the other 11 Colonies) gather through their avatars to engage in universal teenage fantasies of sex, music, drugs and violence, all without adult supervision but with no personal danger to themselves. In the V-Club Daniel spots someone who he thinks is his daughter, but it cannot be since his daughter is dead. She spots him and she bolts. He pursued Zoe's twin until she runs into a room and shuts the door. Her "father" tries to enter by pushing on the 'infinity" shaped handle but is thrown back. It is a security device that keeps all unauthorized people out.  
==Early Life==
Growing up on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], Daniel Graystone was not born wealthy ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]"). Though he was interested in engineering as a child - experimenting in his parent's garage at a young age - Daniel was a [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player and dreamed of being a [[Caprica City Buccaneers|C-Buc]] ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]").  Still, Daniel later admits that he was not very good at pyramid and leaned towards science, graduating from [[Apollo University]] with a [[w:Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in Computer Science.<ref name="The Caprican">{{cite web
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Later in the real world, knowing that Lacy would want to visit her friend again, Daniel lies in wait outside of Zoe's room as Lacy enters. She rummages through Zoe's papers looking for Zoe's [[computer sheet]] to enter the V-Club. Daniel surprises her, demanding an explanation. He cannot enter that chamber because, despite spending all night trying to crack it, he cannot get past Zoe's encryption. He speaks in near awe of his daughter, never realizing until that point how brilliant she was, having a talent for computer technology that exceeded his own at such a young age. He pleads with Lacy to show him what she was working on. How could he see his own daughter online despite her being dead? Lacy acquiesced and both put on Holo-bands headsets to enter the V-Club. As they make their way to the inner sanctum, Lacy explains it is a place for kids like her to let off steam, including engaging in forbidden actions like sex and violence. Daniel says he didn't invent the Holo-band for those things. Lacy tells him that the porno industry was the first to license the technology. He says that's different such things were meant for adults. Lacy is both amused and impatient with his naiveté. They reach the chamber; at the door Lacy explains that Ben show them the way and she and Zoe rejected the decadence that the V-Club represented of the outside worlds.  That there is good and there is evil; there is right and wrong in the world and only through knowing the One True God can they tell the difference. Zoe knew because she knew God and God touched her heart and gave her the ability to create life itsef. Lacy touches the infinity symbol, permitting both herself and Daniel to enter. Daniel is shocked by he sight of the entity that is a perfect replica of his daughter. Bewildered, he learns that his daughter uploaded all available data relevant to herself including data from her own synapses records from her memory translating it into usable data, everything online relevent to her via a search engine and DNA (totaling approximately 300 megabytes) into an online [[holographic avatar]] that exists separately from the standard avatar that Zoe used to enter the V-Club before her death. He at first rejects her as her daughter; that she is just a thing, an imitation, a very good imitation, but just an imitation; a copy. Upset, Zoe-A says "I don't feel like a copy".  Giving into a loging desire, he request a hug from his "daughter". Daniel then comes to a realization. As Zoe-A and her "father" embrace in virtual reality, in the real world Daniel inserts a [[wikipedia:USB flash drive|flash drive]] into a port on Zoe's computer sheet and downloads Zoe-A into it, also removing her from the V-Club. Lacy is appalled and Daniel requests her to leave his house, revoking her security clearance.
Daniel met [[Amanda Graystone|Amanda]], his future wife, at a time in her life when she was recovering from serious psychological trauma, proving to be an important source of emotional stability for her ([[CAP]]: "[[End of Line]]").  Nevertheless, the Graystones' first years of marriage were financially and professionally difficult. When Amanda was pregnant with [[Zoe Graystone|Zoe]], the couple's only child, the Graystones lived in an apartment in [[Cloverdale]], but struggled to pay the rent ([[CAP]]: "[[There is Another Sky]]").


Daniel becomes obsessed with recreating his daughter in the real world using the Zoe-Avatar. Daniel enlists the help of another grieving father, [[Joseph Adama|Joseph Adams]] (later Adama) to obtain a technology that would be better able to handle the Zoe Avatar's consciousness. He does this in exchange for recreating Adams's dead daughter [[Tamara Adama|Tamara]] using the same method Zoe used to recreate herself online. Tamara, along with her mother, died in the same terrorist explosion that claimed Graystone's daughter. Graystone's own company cannot as yet match the Vergis Corporation, Graystone's competitor, technological level in that area. He must steal it. Initially resistant, Adams succumbs to his own need to see his daughter and seeks the help of a criminal organization, the [[Ha'la'tha]], to obtain the technology, a [[Meta-Cognitive Processor]] (MCP). It is, in part, an advanced type of [[wikipedia:Central Processing Unit|Central Processing Unit]] (CPU) chip; but it much more than that. It is essentially an artificial brain.  
Eventually, Daniel would secure an important meeting with management at the [[MicroCap]] company.  With his car not working, Daniel was forced to ride the bus, but fell in the rain getting off. Still, he persisted, attending the meeting soaking wet and with a broken wrist, and coming away with a deal that would begin his upward climb ([[CAP]]: "[[There Is Another Sky]]").


Adams is a corrupt Mob lawyer and in order to have his underworld connections steal the technology, Adama must acquiesce to a favor asked of him by the Boss, the  [[Guatrau]], to put pressure on the Caprican Minister of Defense [[Val Chambers]]. He had with his independence upset various interest, including the Quatral. Adams does deliver the message to Chambers of not forgetting about who he owes for the position he holds now, since Minister Chambers forgot apparently forgot about that fact. Chambers is unmoved. Chambers believes that he is being blackmailed. Adams insists that he is not, but Chambers laughs derisively at that assurance. He is adamant in his refusal to bend to the will of the organization and resorts to using racial slurs against Adams and Taurons in general. He threatens a full scale investigation of the Ha'la'tha. Adams leaves the meeting, wishing the Minister a safe journey. Chambers, taking it as a threat says he isn't going anywhere and calls Adams a "frakkin' dirt eater". The Mob was satisfied with Adams delivering the message and his good faith effort to persuade the defense minister to cooperate and follows through on its end of the bargain and uses it's resources and gains possession of the chip and gives it to Daniel (meanwhile Chambers is murdered in his bed by Joseph's own brother [[Sam Adama]], possibly with Joseph's knowledge). Daniel in turn fulfills his promise to Adams to "reunite" him with his own daughter which Daniel has stored in his own database. However, the meeting in Virtual Reality between Adams and "Tamara" doesn't go well with "Tamara" in a state of near shock and is frantic. She becomes even more so when she can't feel her own heart beat.  
Five years later, the Graystones' first home burned down. Daniel later comments that it was his computers and the house's older, wooden construction that started the fire. Unable to reach Zoe - whose room was in the attic of the house - Daniel and Amanda struggled to save their daughter; however all three managed to survive ([[CAP]]: "[[The Imperfections of Memory]]", "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]", "[[Things We Lock Away]]").


Appalled by his daughter's and his own horror, Adams renounces Daniel's efforts and leaves. Undaunted, Daniel tries to recreate Zoe as a robot, using one of his pre-existing prototype [[Cylon Prototype|U-87 Cyber Combat Units]] he is trying to win a military contract with Caprica's government with as a platform. This is what the technology was for, to install a newer more advanced MCP design that was superior to what Graystone's own company was making. The download is successful and Zoe-R takes a few haulting steps and manage to call Daniel "Daddy" with her synthesised voice. However, there is a mishap and Zoe-A  collapses. The datastream failed after the avatar program is corrupted in the robot's MCP. The data is apparently unrecoverable. Desperate, Graystone goes into and searches for Zoe-A in his database but to his renewed grief she is gone, the effort to have his daughter back in someway, a total failure.
==Corporate Success==
Building on these early successes, Daniel founded [[Graystone Industries]] and pioneered the development of the [[holoband]], a user interface technology that allows users to enter the digital construct known as [[V-world]]. The success of the technology made Daniel a celebrity scientist, frequently appearing on television ([[CAP]]: "[[Know Thy Enemy]]", "[[End of Line]]").  Despite this focus on consumer electronics, Daniel's company began vying for a contract with the [[Caprican Ministry of Defense]] for the creation of a [[robot]] soldier ([[CAP]]: "[[Caprica pilot|Pilot]]").  


Daniel then moves on to finish creation of the soldier robots to win the Caprican military contract using the stolen MCP technology. It has improved his product immensely. Previously the U-87 was a slow sluggish robot that couldn't hit a single fast moving object. Now it could engage multiple rapid targets which are running in all directions simultaneously with deadly accuracy. After a spectacular contract winning demonstration of a prototype, He changes the name of the robot model from Cyber Combat Unit to Cybernetic Lifeform Node: [[Cylon Prototype|Cylon]]. Albeit he is still downcast and not enthusiastic about his success in wining the contract, he seems to have comes to terms with his daughter permanent death and puts aside his attempt of quasi resurrection of her. However, unknown to him (as of the Pilot episode), Daniel actually succeeds when Zoe-R, its data recovered somehow in its memory and MCP, it "awakens" in a laboratory. Daniel Graystone has thus created the first Cylon with a human consciousness. ([[Caprica pilot]]) <!-- <ref name="casting call">{{cite_web|url=http://trekweb.com/articles/2008/04/05/New-Details-of-Galactica-Prequel-Caprica-Characters-Description-Major-Spoilers.shtml|title=Caprica casting call|date=Apr 5, 2008}}</ref>. -->
While the development of the cybernetic body was successful, Daniel had considerably more difficulty with the programming of a true artificial intelligence and its related hardware. The project had originally been planned to take five years, but the increasing number of prototype failures led to the program falling five years behind schedule and five hundred million [[cubit]]s over budget. Frustrated with Daniel's failures, the Caprican government threatened to cancel its contract with the company and take the project to the [[Vergis Corporation]], Graystone Industries' [[Tauron]] competitor, which had announced the successful development of a [[meta-cognitive processor]] that could serve as an artificial intelligence.
 
==Personal Tragedy==
Daniel suffered a personal loss when his daughter Zoe was killed in a suicide bombing aboard the [[Lev]] in [[Caprica City]]. However, he later discovered that before her death, Zoe had developed a method of uploading personal data onto the holoband that resulted in the creation of a [[holographic avatar]] of herself. Daniel believed it would be possible to use the U-87 prototype's body, combined with the processor developed by Vergis, to upload Zoe's avatar and allow her to live in the real world.
 
As a result, Daniel contacted [[Joseph Adama]], a lawyer whose [[Tamara Adama|daughter]] and [[Shannon Adama|wife]] had also been killed in the terrorist bombing. Daniel asked Adama to use his ties to the [[Ha'la'tha]] crime syndicate on Tauron to steal the Vergis processor; in exchange, Daniel would reconstruct the personalities of Adama's daughter and possibly his wife. While Adama acquired the processor and handed it over to Daniel, he later became disgusted with the idea of resurrecting the personalities of the dead, leaving Daniel to pursue the matter himself.
 
Undaunted, Daniel tried to recreate Zoe as a robot, implanting Zoe's avatar in a U-87 unit. While the experiment initially seemed to work, with the robot calling Daniel "daddy" and taking a few steps forward, the avatar's data quickly became corrupted and the robot collapsed. Despite Daniel's efforts to recover his daughter's avatar, the program appeared to be irretrievable.
 
==Creation of the Cylons==
Despite his failure to bring back his daughter, Daniel uses the stolen processor to perfect the military prototype for the government project. Dubbing the unit a Cybernetic Life-form Node (CYLON), Daniel presents the completed unit to an impressed group of government officials.  Graystone Industries was officially awarded a contract for the production of one hundred thousand U-87s ([[CAP]]: [[Caprica pilot|''Caprica'' pilot]]). 
 
This success was short-lived, when it quickly became apparent that only the original U-87 prototype would function sufficiently; as described by Dr. [[Cyrus Xander]], Daniel's assistant, attempts to produce copies or to transplant the stolen MCP into other robot bodies produced "morons" ([[CAP]]:  "[[Rebirth]]"). For long weeks, Daniel and his company would struggle in vain to find an explanation for the problem.  He briefly (and correctly) suspected that Zoe's avatar was still in the robot, but attempts meant to force Zoe to identify herself failed ([[CAP]]:  "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]").  Faced with the plummeting price of Graystone Industries stock, a dwindling supply of cash, and an accelerated production schedule forced onto him by a suspicious military, Daniel decided to purge any anomalies from the MCP and to start with "clean" MCPs.  The Cylon, however, killed a [[Philomon|Graystone Industries employee]] and escaped from its laboratory before the procedure could be performed ([[CAP]]:  "[[End of Line]]").
 
==Public and Personal Crises==
Although Daniel and Amanda were arguably the highest profile relatives of the Lev bombing victims, the public attention given to them did not greatly exceed that of other survivors. All of this changed abruptly at a memorial service one month after the bombing, during which Amanda announced that Zoe was responsible for the bombing. Daniel was forced to whisk his wife away from an angry crowd ([[CAP]]:  "[[Rebirth]]"). Almost instantly, attitudes on Caprica and across the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] turned against Daniel, his family, and Graystone Industries. Daniel himself was abducted and beaten by [[Sam Adama]] and compelled by a changed Joseph Adama to bring back the avatar of his daughter--a demand which Daniel could not meet ([[CAP]]:  "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]"). Public opinion continued to sour, and Daniel reluctantly decided to make a more active PR response by appearing on the ''[[Backtalk with Baxter Sarno]]'' late night talk show ([[CAP]]:  "[[Reins of a Waterfall]]"). Despite coaching and high expectations for the interview, Daniel's attempts to defend himself and to present Zoe as a "troubled" teenager floundered, until he was unexpectedly joined on stage by Amanda.  Together, the two of them created a more compelling narrative, of Zoe being yet another young victim of the dangers of life on the holoband--and continuing in the spirit of that narrative, Daniel spontaneously announced the creation of a fund for young holoband addicts and the end of the holoband as a profit-making enterprise for Graystone Industries ([[CAP]]:  "[[Gravedancing]]").
 
Stunned by the instant elimination of sixty percent of the corporation's revenue, the board of directors of Graystone Industries quickly maneuvered to remove Daniel from the board.  Daniel countered with a dramatic presentation to the board, arguing that the holoband could not be sustained as a source of profit in any case, and that the future of the company lay in a new technology that would even more radically change the face of Colonial society:  the Cylons. Daniel's position as CEO was saved ([[CAP]]:  "[[There Is Another Sky]]").
 
Daniel's successes were threatened by the appearance on Caprica of his personal rival, [[Tomas Vergis]], who revealed that not only did he know that Daniel was responsible for ordering the theft of the MCP, but also for the murder of two close friends during the theft.  Rather than taking Daniel to court, Vergis promised to systematically take or destroy everything that was dear to him ([[CAP]]:  "[[Know Thy Enemy]]"). Vergis' first target was the Caprica Buccaneers.  Starved for funds to sustain the U-87 project, Daniel capitulated and made plans to sell the team. Even more damaging was Vergis' brief conversation with Amanda about Daniel's role in the theft and murders. Confronted by Amanda with the claim, Daniel could only respond that the situation was "complicated."  Amanda had nothing else to say to him, leaving Daniel to face the loss of the U-87, the military contract, and potentially his company by himself, as well as the very real possibility of his wife's suicide ([[CAP]]:  "[[Ghosts in the Machine]]," "[[End of Line]]").
 
Ultimately, Daniel Graystone revives from this crisis with his personal resourcefulness, his wife, and the help of the [[Ha'la'tha]]. By promising the Ha'la'tha partial ownership of Graystone Industries, he blackmails the board into reinstating him as CEO and removing Tomas Vergis. Amanda's involvement with the [[GDD]] surveillance of [[Clarice Willow]] alienates her from Willow and forces her to reconcile with her husband and seek his protection. With her help, Daniel rediscovers his daughter's avatar in [[V-World]], and the two convince Zoe to reconcile with them. He pledges to develop a lifelike mechanical body that will enable Zoe to inhabit the real world, a promise that he fulfills five years later. Daniel prevents the [[Guatrau|head of the Ha'la'tha]] from assassinating him and forms a firmer friendship with the Adamas and the rest of the Ha'la'tha's new leadership. Daniel and Amanda's thwarting of the STO terrorist attack do much to restore their public image and the fortunes of Graystone Industries. ([[CAP]]:  "[[Apotheosis (episode)|Apotheosis]]")


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Dr. Daniel Graystone is the founder and CEO of Caprica's Graystone Industries, the inventor of the holoband, and owner of the Caprica City Buccaneers in the years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. He is the creator of the Cylons.

Early Life[edit]

Growing up on Caprica, Daniel Graystone was not born wealthy (CAP: "There is Another Sky"). Though he was interested in engineering as a child - experimenting in his parent's garage at a young age - Daniel was a pyramid player and dreamed of being a C-Buc (CAP: "Know Thy Enemy"). Still, Daniel later admits that he was not very good at pyramid and leaned towards science, graduating from Apollo University with a PhD in Computer Science.[1]

Daniel met Amanda, his future wife, at a time in her life when she was recovering from serious psychological trauma, proving to be an important source of emotional stability for her (CAP: "End of Line"). Nevertheless, the Graystones' first years of marriage were financially and professionally difficult. When Amanda was pregnant with Zoe, the couple's only child, the Graystones lived in an apartment in Cloverdale, but struggled to pay the rent (CAP: "There is Another Sky").

Eventually, Daniel would secure an important meeting with management at the MicroCap company. With his car not working, Daniel was forced to ride the bus, but fell in the rain getting off. Still, he persisted, attending the meeting soaking wet and with a broken wrist, and coming away with a deal that would begin his upward climb (CAP: "There Is Another Sky").

Five years later, the Graystones' first home burned down. Daniel later comments that it was his computers and the house's older, wooden construction that started the fire. Unable to reach Zoe - whose room was in the attic of the house - Daniel and Amanda struggled to save their daughter; however all three managed to survive (CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory", "Ghosts in the Machine", "Things We Lock Away").

Corporate Success[edit]

Building on these early successes, Daniel founded Graystone Industries and pioneered the development of the holoband, a user interface technology that allows users to enter the digital construct known as V-world. The success of the technology made Daniel a celebrity scientist, frequently appearing on television (CAP: "Know Thy Enemy", "End of Line"). Despite this focus on consumer electronics, Daniel's company began vying for a contract with the Caprican Ministry of Defense for the creation of a robot soldier (CAP: "Pilot").

While the development of the cybernetic body was successful, Daniel had considerably more difficulty with the programming of a true artificial intelligence and its related hardware. The project had originally been planned to take five years, but the increasing number of prototype failures led to the program falling five years behind schedule and five hundred million cubits over budget. Frustrated with Daniel's failures, the Caprican government threatened to cancel its contract with the company and take the project to the Vergis Corporation, Graystone Industries' Tauron competitor, which had announced the successful development of a meta-cognitive processor that could serve as an artificial intelligence.

Personal Tragedy[edit]

Daniel suffered a personal loss when his daughter Zoe was killed in a suicide bombing aboard the Lev in Caprica City. However, he later discovered that before her death, Zoe had developed a method of uploading personal data onto the holoband that resulted in the creation of a holographic avatar of herself. Daniel believed it would be possible to use the U-87 prototype's body, combined with the processor developed by Vergis, to upload Zoe's avatar and allow her to live in the real world.

As a result, Daniel contacted Joseph Adama, a lawyer whose daughter and wife had also been killed in the terrorist bombing. Daniel asked Adama to use his ties to the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate on Tauron to steal the Vergis processor; in exchange, Daniel would reconstruct the personalities of Adama's daughter and possibly his wife. While Adama acquired the processor and handed it over to Daniel, he later became disgusted with the idea of resurrecting the personalities of the dead, leaving Daniel to pursue the matter himself.

Undaunted, Daniel tried to recreate Zoe as a robot, implanting Zoe's avatar in a U-87 unit. While the experiment initially seemed to work, with the robot calling Daniel "daddy" and taking a few steps forward, the avatar's data quickly became corrupted and the robot collapsed. Despite Daniel's efforts to recover his daughter's avatar, the program appeared to be irretrievable.

Creation of the Cylons[edit]

Despite his failure to bring back his daughter, Daniel uses the stolen processor to perfect the military prototype for the government project. Dubbing the unit a Cybernetic Life-form Node (CYLON), Daniel presents the completed unit to an impressed group of government officials. Graystone Industries was officially awarded a contract for the production of one hundred thousand U-87s (CAP: Caprica pilot).

This success was short-lived, when it quickly became apparent that only the original U-87 prototype would function sufficiently; as described by Dr. Cyrus Xander, Daniel's assistant, attempts to produce copies or to transplant the stolen MCP into other robot bodies produced "morons" (CAP: "Rebirth"). For long weeks, Daniel and his company would struggle in vain to find an explanation for the problem. He briefly (and correctly) suspected that Zoe's avatar was still in the robot, but attempts meant to force Zoe to identify herself failed (CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine"). Faced with the plummeting price of Graystone Industries stock, a dwindling supply of cash, and an accelerated production schedule forced onto him by a suspicious military, Daniel decided to purge any anomalies from the MCP and to start with "clean" MCPs. The Cylon, however, killed a Graystone Industries employee and escaped from its laboratory before the procedure could be performed (CAP: "End of Line").

Public and Personal Crises[edit]

Although Daniel and Amanda were arguably the highest profile relatives of the Lev bombing victims, the public attention given to them did not greatly exceed that of other survivors. All of this changed abruptly at a memorial service one month after the bombing, during which Amanda announced that Zoe was responsible for the bombing. Daniel was forced to whisk his wife away from an angry crowd (CAP: "Rebirth"). Almost instantly, attitudes on Caprica and across the Twelve Colonies turned against Daniel, his family, and Graystone Industries. Daniel himself was abducted and beaten by Sam Adama and compelled by a changed Joseph Adama to bring back the avatar of his daughter--a demand which Daniel could not meet (CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall"). Public opinion continued to sour, and Daniel reluctantly decided to make a more active PR response by appearing on the Backtalk with Baxter Sarno late night talk show (CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall"). Despite coaching and high expectations for the interview, Daniel's attempts to defend himself and to present Zoe as a "troubled" teenager floundered, until he was unexpectedly joined on stage by Amanda. Together, the two of them created a more compelling narrative, of Zoe being yet another young victim of the dangers of life on the holoband--and continuing in the spirit of that narrative, Daniel spontaneously announced the creation of a fund for young holoband addicts and the end of the holoband as a profit-making enterprise for Graystone Industries (CAP: "Gravedancing").

Stunned by the instant elimination of sixty percent of the corporation's revenue, the board of directors of Graystone Industries quickly maneuvered to remove Daniel from the board. Daniel countered with a dramatic presentation to the board, arguing that the holoband could not be sustained as a source of profit in any case, and that the future of the company lay in a new technology that would even more radically change the face of Colonial society: the Cylons. Daniel's position as CEO was saved (CAP: "There Is Another Sky").

Daniel's successes were threatened by the appearance on Caprica of his personal rival, Tomas Vergis, who revealed that not only did he know that Daniel was responsible for ordering the theft of the MCP, but also for the murder of two close friends during the theft. Rather than taking Daniel to court, Vergis promised to systematically take or destroy everything that was dear to him (CAP: "Know Thy Enemy"). Vergis' first target was the Caprica Buccaneers. Starved for funds to sustain the U-87 project, Daniel capitulated and made plans to sell the team. Even more damaging was Vergis' brief conversation with Amanda about Daniel's role in the theft and murders. Confronted by Amanda with the claim, Daniel could only respond that the situation was "complicated." Amanda had nothing else to say to him, leaving Daniel to face the loss of the U-87, the military contract, and potentially his company by himself, as well as the very real possibility of his wife's suicide (CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine," "End of Line").

Ultimately, Daniel Graystone revives from this crisis with his personal resourcefulness, his wife, and the help of the Ha'la'tha. By promising the Ha'la'tha partial ownership of Graystone Industries, he blackmails the board into reinstating him as CEO and removing Tomas Vergis. Amanda's involvement with the GDD surveillance of Clarice Willow alienates her from Willow and forces her to reconcile with her husband and seek his protection. With her help, Daniel rediscovers his daughter's avatar in V-World, and the two convince Zoe to reconcile with them. He pledges to develop a lifelike mechanical body that will enable Zoe to inhabit the real world, a promise that he fulfills five years later. Daniel prevents the head of the Ha'la'tha from assassinating him and forms a firmer friendship with the Adamas and the rest of the Ha'la'tha's new leadership. Daniel and Amanda's thwarting of the STO terrorist attack do much to restore their public image and the fortunes of Graystone Industries. (CAP: "Apotheosis")

References[edit]

  1. Ann Royall (Ianuarius 12, YR42). Graystone Computer Science Wing Coming to AU (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). The Caprican. Retrieved on 16 October 2010.