Rigel
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Flight Corporal Rigel was a young twenty-something, professional woman who approached her responsibilities with enthusiasm; she was mainly responsible for coordinating Viper defense and launch, as well as processing data scans from the Vipers. She was quite joyous over the female pilots' successful defense of Salik's medical shuttle (Lost Planet of the Gods), and also supplied information to Adama and Tigh concerning the Ravishol Pulsar (Gun on Ice Planet Zero)
Rigel appeared throughout the entire first and only season on Core Command.
Portrayed by Sarah Rush
Notes
- Rigel was credited as "Woman on Duty" for Saga of a Star World and Lost Planet of the Gods. This was changed in her subsequent appearance.
- In The Long Patrol, a computer readout lists Rigel as a sergeant; thusly inaccurate.
- In the re-imagining, Rigel's contemporary is Petty Officer Dualla.
- The name "Rigel" is taken from Beta Orionis, in the constellation Orion. It is a B8 Supergiant star, some 400 times brighter than the sun. It is believed to be a triple star system (see Cyrannus), but it is unlikely any of the stars within the system support life-bearing planets.
- The name is a contraction of the Arabic "Rijl Jauza al-Yusra", meaning "left foot of the Central One", indicative of Rigel's position in the "left foot" of Orion.