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Cain
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Cain is a military leader who attained the status of a living war hero during the latter part of the Thousand Yahren War. Despite his popularity, Cain sometimes fails to live up to his reputation and seems quite unable to accept ideas other than his own. He is stubborn, but evidently knows how to run a military battlestar and execute a hindering plan against the Cylons.

Biography

Assigned to the Fifth Fleet as overall commander, Pegasus and that ill-fated fleet fought the Cylons at the Battle of Molecay. Presumed lost, the Commander managed to recover survivors from the disastrous battle and escaped to lightspeed. Since Cain knows that the Cylons would doubtless be between Molecay and the Colonies, he heads outward toward Gamoray.

Before the failure at Molecay and his presumed death, he apparently met Cassiopeia and knew Commander Adama. Both seemed to be friends of his, the former helping him recover from the death of his wife. As so far as is known, he has one daughter, Sheba, who matures into a Viper pilot that gave Apollo and Starbuck a run for their cubits prior to their discovery of Pegasus.

Cain oversees the continual "knocking down" of the Cylon forces on Gamoray, stealing fuel as the Cylons unwisely replenished and rebuilt. This is done with very little interference, since the Cylons are more intent on the Fleet assembled by Adama.

Sheba and Bojay encounter two Galactica pilots, who are subsequently brought before Cain for debriefing. While Cain mourns the news of the Cylon victory over the Colonials, and the utter holocaust conducted at the Colonies, he now has two battlestars at his disposal and nearly 200-240 fighting craft. This gives Cain an idea for taking over Gamoray and using it to strike back at the Cylons, which he presents to Adama, Colonel Tigh, Apollo, and Starbuck.

Commander Adama, senior officer to him, tells him that the plan is inadvisable and but will consider another alternative.

Sometime after presenting the plan to Adama, Cassiopeia visits Cain, who hears of his return through Starbuck. The two, while not being able to immediately warm up to him, went down to the Officer's Club. This caused Sheba, hating Cassiopeia for what she represented, to leave the Officer's Club.

Adama presents his plan on attacking the recently detected fuel tankers en route to Gamoray, using a squadron from both battlestars in the attack to raise morale. Cain, after some objection, goes along with the plan as well as conjoining the two major squadrons from the battlestars (Pegasus' Silver Spar and Galactica's Blue). While Blue Squadron attacks the Cylon escort, Cain destroys the two tankers, hoping to force Adama into accepting his plan.

Adama isn't pleased, especially with Blue Squadron being deftly blamed for the destruction of the tankers. Cain presses on, but to no avail. Adama notes that Pegasus had a large enough fuel reserve to at least get the Fleet out of the system, but Cain disagrees. Adama has his fill of Cain's insubordinate actions and relieves him of duty.

Bojay and Sheba meet Cain in the Officer's Club of Galactica, informing him that they would help him regain command of Pegasus. He replies that he would do nothing that strikes as mutiny.

Cain later regains command of the battlestar Pegasus, admitting that if the two battlestars attacked Gamoray, there would be no Fleet left ^{(TOS: "The Living Legend, Part I")}. As Pegasus is on the other side of the Fleet, he manages to sneak around and pin the attacking force of Cylon raiders, causing Baltar's forces to retreat.

Adama admits that the only way to now get fuel was from Gamoray, where the Imperious Leader would lead a dedication ceremony. Bojay, Sheba, Cassiopeia, Boomer, Apollo and Starbuck destroy the defense systems of the Cylon's outer capital, gaining access for fueling shuttles to take all the fuel they needed. Bojay is shuttled back to the nearby Pegasus, where Cain part ways with Sheba and Cassiopeia. Cain orders all unneeded personnel and Viper pilots off the ship via shuttle and Viper, while he, Apollo, and Starbuck attacked the two basestars. The basestars are positioned where they cannot fire without risk of striking one another. Cain, in a prime position, attacks both basestars after Apollo and Starbuck destroys the missile launchers of both craft.

Presumably, Cain and Pegasus are destroyed along with the second basestar. Yet, Starbuck incited speculation with the claim that Cain may have had Pegasus enter lightspeed before the base star's destruction.

Regardless, Cain's fate remains unknown to all those but himself and his crew ^{(TOS: "The Living Legend, Part II")}.

Notes

Character Conception and Portrayal

Commander Cain, portrayed by veteran actor Lloyd Bridges, was introduced in the two-part episode "The Living Legend". According to So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica, the character was conceived by creator Glen A. Larson as a "Patton in space." Cain is depicted as a legendary military commander driven by his ego and a relentless desire to attack the Cylons, a stark contrast to Commander Adama's more cautious approach of protecting the fleet.

The role of the forceful, aggressive commander was considered "right up his alley" for Lloyd Bridges, whose powerful presence created a compelling conflict with Lorne Greene's Adama. Story editor Jim Carlson described Cain as a "bull in a china shop," a character whose aggressive tactics could get people killed.

Glen Larson deliberately left Cain's fate ambiguous at the end of the episode, with the intention of bringing the popular character and the Pegasus back had the series continued. Notes from an document on Season Two of the Original Series would share a story idea about his return in an unconventional manner.

Re-imagined Series Perspective

In the Original Series, Cain is subordinate to Adama. In the Re-imagined Series, Commander William Adama is subordinate to the arrogant Admiral Helena Cain, commander of the advanced battlestar Pegasus, as first seen in the episode, "Pegasus."

Additional Details

• The name "Cain" is derived from a biblical story. Cain, in the instance of the Bible, is the oldest son of Adam who slew his brother Abel.

• According to Encyclopedia Galactica (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):

Cain, born 100 yahren before the Battle of Cimtar, is considered the "greatest military genius of the modern age," dominating the Intercolonial Strategic Council in the years prior to his disappearance at the Battle of Molecay. He is attributed to "striking [a majority of] human advances" in the last years of the Thousand-Yahren War.

Cain graduated from the academy at age 25, later gaining fame as leader of Prometheus's Eagle Squadron. Despite being court martialed twice in his career for acts of insubordination, he was found innocent each time and returned to "his cheering, fanatically loyal troops".

Despite being out-numbered and out-gunned, Cain was able to win various victories against the Cylons, making several advanced courses dedicated to studying his battle tactics available at the Academy.

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Preceded by: Unknown	Commanding Officer of the Battlestar Pegasus	Succeeded by: Colonel Tigh (Acting)
Preceded by: Colonel Tigh (Acting)	Commanding Officer of the Battlestar Pegasus	Succeeded by: Unknown
Preceded by: Unknown or none	Commanding Officer of the Fifth Fleet	Succeeded by: none (fleet destroyed)

Cain
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Role	Commanding Officer, battlestar Pegasus
Rank	Rear Admiral
Serial Number	866931
Portrayed by	Michelle Forbes Kyra Scott (young Cain)
Cain is a Cylon
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Admiral Helena Cain hails from the colony of Tauron, and is the commanding officer of the Mercury-class battlestar Pegasus at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. She is a hard leader, unafraid of making difficult decisions and unflinching in her will to do what she sees as right. These traits sometimes compel her to feel that she has been left no choice but to take controversial, unpopular, and morally questionable choices.

Biography

Childhood

Helena Cain was born during the first Cylon War. On the last day of the war, Tauron was under attack by Cylon basestars and Centurion ground forces. Her sister Lucy Cain and her father were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father was injured trying to escape, he told Helena to get Lucy to a shelter, before dying. The two made it out of the building, as a result of panic and likely injury Lucy had sustained when she tripped over some broken concrete, Helena left her in a field of rubble and ran away to hide in a container. While in the container, she found a folding knife, and when she was cornered by a Cylon centurion, she pulled the knife and demanded that the Cylon either attack or leave. Much to her shock the Cylon stopped, turned around and left the container. When Cain came out again after the Cylons retreated, she found only her sister's doll on the ground (TRS: "Razor," extended version). These traumatic events were formative for her future.

Cylon attack and guerrilla warfare

Cain dining with Gina Inviere.

When Pegasus is scheduled for an extensive overhaul at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards, Cain has regular meetings with Gina Inviere, a civilian contractor working for the Colonial Ministry of Defense, to work out the details of the retrofit. The two eventually become romantically involved.

Shortly before the Cylon attack, Lieutenant Kendra Shaw is assigned to the battlestar as Cain's personal aide. When the lieutenant fails to make it to CIC immediately after her arrival, Cain chews her out in front of the crew, but breaks into laughter after Shaw leaves, showing that she isn't always as hard as she appears to be.

When the Cylons attack the shipyards, Cain is in her quarters, working out and going over efficiency reports. She makes it to CIC and immediately orders the battlestar unmoored. When the navigational computer is discovered to be offline and nuclear missiles are inbound, Cain orders a blind jump to escape certain destruction. With many of her crew dead and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies confirmed, she uses the Pegasus public address to inform the survivors while vowing to take revenge on the Cylons. However, in a private dinner with her XO Jurgen Belzen, Jack Fisk, Inviere and Shaw, she promises that she has no intention to unnecessarily waste lives or resources in an emotional quest for revenge.

Shortly later, a Cylon communications relay is detected, which the crew believes to be an easy target. On arrival, one squadron of Vipers is launched. However, 15 squadrons of Raiders suddenly appear because, it turns out, the target is actually a Cylon staging area. XO Belzen urges Cain to recover their Vipers and retreat, but instead she seemingly forgets her earlier promise and orders the launch of all remaining fighters, which Belzen refuses to do in the face of such odds. Cain asks the XO for his side arm, and shoots him in the head with it in front of the crew. She then turned to Fisk, promotes him to XO, and orders him to launch the rest of the Vipers. Fearing for his life, he does so. At the same time, Inviere disables the main gun batteries and allows a group of Cylon Centurions to board the ship, causing many deaths. Shaw reveals her as a Cylon agent in CIC and Cain orders her arrest. Inviere kills two marines and aims a gun at the helpless Cain, but hesitates to shoot her, showing that perhaps the Cylon's feelings for Cain are real. Before Inviere can make up her mind, Shaw knocks her out. Pegasus manages to win the battle, but with staggering losses.

Cain is deeply stung by Inviere's betrayal, her feelings toward her erstwhile lover turned into hatred and scorn. Cain gives Alastair Thorne free rein in interrogating the Cylon for information, suggesting "pain ... degradation, fear, shame." This sets the tone for the interrogations, ultimately leading to measures such as gang rape.

When Pegasus happens upon a small civilian flotilla, Admiral Cain decides to strip it of resources and personnel, including their FTL drives. The civilians, however, refuse the cooperate. Resistance is particularly vocal on the Scylla. When a boarding team led by Shaw and Fisk fails to make the civilians cooperate, Cain orders the team to shoot the families of every conscript who refuses to obey. Shaw fires the first shot and eventually 10 people are killed, thus breaking the resistance. Cain is very impressed by Shaw's actions in the civilian standoff and promotes her to the rank of captain, explaining that Shaw has the qualities of a "razor"; someone who is able to shut down all emotions and inhibitions in battle in order to survive.

Despite the impossible odds, Cain intends to sustain a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the occupying Cylon forces. She then led the battlestar away from the Twelve Colonies, following a Cylon fleet that trails what they discovered as the fellow battlestar Galactica Template:TRSRazor.

Meeting Galactica

Admiral Cain, meeting up with the crew of Galactica.

Upon meeting up with Commander William Adama's Fleet six months later, she as ranking officer assumes command and transfers personnel from Galactica to Pegasus, including Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, indicating that Adama has let military discipline become too lax. Cain is more interested in fighting the Cylons, seemingly oblivious to the point that she and the ships around her are all that was left of the human race, whose survival is more paramount than offensive assaults. While Adama initially welcomes such attacks against a mysterious Cylon force that followed the Fleet (to stop it from following them), his attitude begins to cool about Cain's very strict and unmerciful leadership.

Cain's actions also raise concerns with President Laura Roslin. Cain recognizes Roslin and her former role as Secretary of Education. After the Fleet command transfer from Adama to Cain, Roslin makes several attempts to call Cain to request supplies for the civilian fleet, but all of Roslin's calls are ignored.

After the fatal assault of one of her crew members, Lieutenant Thorne, Cain arrests Chief Tyrol and Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon and has them flown to Pegasus, against Adama's protests, since traditionally a trial is held on the ship where an incident has occurred. Cain uses Galactica's logs against Adama when he asks for a tribunal; Cain notes that Adama dismissed the last council unilaterally when the verdict did not suit him. Cain summarily court-martials the prisoners herself in a matter of hours, sentencing them to death. A displeased Commander Adama orders an assault crew to Pegasus to bring his men back. Cain responds by deploying her squadrons of advanced Viper Mark VIIs against Adama's museum collection of Viper Mark IIs in a tense standoff ^{(TRS: "Pegasus")}.

The tense situation is ended by a sudden appearance by Starbuck, flying the Blackbird as she returns from her unofficial recon mission on the unknown Cylon ship. Starbuck transmits the pictures she took of the Resurrection Ship back to Pegasus's CIC. Upon Thrace's return to Pegasus, Cain is so impressed with her performance that she promotes Thrace to Captain and Pegasus CAG, replacing the competent but uncreative and inflexible Captain Taylor. Cain tasks Starbuck with planning the joint strike on the Resurrection Ship.

Attack on the Resurrection Ship

Admiral Cain held at gun-point by her Cylon prisoner.

After Captain Thrace briefs both Adama, Apollo, and Cain on her plan to attack the Resurrection Ship, Adama pulls Starbuck aside and outlines a plan to assassinate Cain following the attack. At the same time, Cain instructs Jack Fisk to lead a detachment of marines to "terminate Adama's command" after the battle ^{(TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part I")}.

When the moment arrives, both commanders back down from their assassination plots, to the relief of Thrace and Fisk.

Assassination

Shortly afterwards, Cain returns to her quarters and is surprised to find Gina Inviere, who escaped her cell with the aid of Baltar, waiting for her. After a tense confrontation, Gina kills Cain with a shot to the head.

Cain is given a funeral with full military honors. Fisk and Thrace eulogize her; Fisk promises to command Pegasus in the same spirit as she did, and Thrace says that while she knew Cain only briefly, she admired her, and that "We were safer with her than we are without." ^{(TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part II")}. Several months later, Adama tells his son that he can't find any faults in Cain's tactical decisions, and refuses to pass judgment on her, because he had people who kept him from going down a similar path, and never had to go through the situations Cain had to face ^{(TRS: "Razor")}.

Analysis

Adama abandons his assassination plan because of something that was pointed out in a private conversation with the second copy of Sharon Valerii, who reminded him that during his decommissioning speech he had asked whether humanity asked itself if it deserved to survive ^{(TRS: "Miniseries, Night 1")}. Turning on each other would have proven that the Cylons were correct about humanity.

Cain's reasons for calling off her plan were never revealed, and remain a topic of debate among fans.

Notes

Sources for this page may be located at: Sources:Cain

Original Series nods

• Helena Cain is inspired by the character of Commander Cain from the original Battlestar Galactica, portrayed by the late Lloyd Bridges.

• Unlike Commander Cain in the Original Series, Admiral Cain is a superior officer to Commander William Adama. The Original Series's Adama held seniority over Cain (as well as being the sitting leader of the Quorum of the Twelve at the time), and relieved him of command for a time in the two part episode, "The Living Legend".

Behind-the-Scenes

• Actress Michelle Forbes said on her character, "She’s lost perspective. People ask, ‘Is she insane? Is she psychotic?’ I hope that’s not how she came across because that was never the intention. I think some individuals can appear to be that way, but this is a woman who did what she had to do in order to survive during some very brutal conflicts. Along the way, Cain lost her sense of judgment as well as her sense of reason and rationale. That was all very interesting for me to play. Usually in TV you’re given one characteristic and you dare not stray from that, so it was neat to have such a difficult, fascinating woman to play. In "Resurrection Ship" it really comes to light the path of sadism that these people have gone down and we’re fully able to see exactly what happened to this group aboard the Pegasus. There were some pretty difficult choices they had to make, too, in regard to the Cylon prisoner Gina and that whole dynamic." [1]

• Cain's sexual orientation was revealed in Razor, which Forbes, in the "Making of" featurette on its original DVD release, stated came as a surprise to her.

• Forbes guest starred as Dara Timicin in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Half a Life" and had a recurring role as Ensign Ro Laren during the last three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, with the character at one point earmarked to join the spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The role of Kira Nerys was created to fill that function, instead. Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ronald D. Moore, also a TNG veteran, wrote for her character in the episodes "Disaster" and "The Next Phase".

Production

• Cain's given name, Helena, was not spoken in dialogue initially, but was posted in episode summaries on Scifi.com (initially misspelled as "Nelena"). Her name is first spoken by Colonel Jurgen Belzen in "Razor".

• Cain's habit of expediting meetings by conducting them without chairs is borrowed from UN Ambassador John R. Bolton (Source: Podcast:Pegasus). Within the show, the lack of chairs is said to stem from her preference to stand because of her back problems ^{(TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part II")}.

Separate continuity

• In Dynamite Entertainment's comic books, Helena Cain and Pegasus make a one-shot appearance in Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus, and she is mentioned again in Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6. In Origins 6, Captain Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain is noted as Helena's mother, who had divorced her husband well before the Battle of Tauron—the last battle of the First Cylon War. However, "Razor" makes it clear that Helena's mother was named "Saundra," and that she was on Hypatia, Tauron at the time of that last battle, which is when she died.

References

Preceded by: (unknown)

Commanding Officer, Pegasus

Succeeded by: Jack Fisk

Cain
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Lucy Cain was Helena Cain's younger sister and was presumably killed by the Cylons during the first Cylon War.

Tauron was under attack by Cylon basestars and Centurion ground forces on the last day of the war. Lucy, her sister and her father were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father is injured trying to escape, he tells Helena to get Lucy to a shelter. The two make it out of the building, but outside Helena panics, leaves Lucy in a field of rubble and runs away to hide in a container. When Helena comes out again after the Cylons retreated, she finds only her sister's doll on the ground ^{(TRS: "Razor")}.

Notes

• This character does not appear in the television version of "Razor," but only the extended cut released on DVD.

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Mister Cain is the father of Helena and Lucy Cain.

During the Battle of Tauron, he tried to protect his daughters, but was mortally wounded in the aftermath of an explosion in the stairwell of a shelled building. As he died, Cain told Helena to protect Lucy from the Cylons, which is something that she later failed to do out of fear after Lucy got trapped on a piece of rubble (TRS: "Razor," extended version).

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Lt. Garris Cain was a Viper pilot stationed on the battlestar Galactica during the opening of the Cylon War, where he was a wingman of Adama.

An exceptional pilot with an ego to match, Lieutenant Cain saw himself as the undisputed Ace aboard Galactica, with the best kill ratios and performance ratings. He was risk-taker and a hothead, quick to anger and slow to forgive, always ready to seize the moment rather than waiting for the right situation. In any other flyer, his rule bending would have earned him a demotion, but he was a natural pilot and his fantastic ability made Cain a valuable – if unorthodox - wingman.

Impulsive, impatient, hotheaded, and a risk-taker, often irritating (and being irritated by) his fellow wingmen, Paulus and Iphigenia. However, he was nonetheless an excellent pilot who completed his missions succesfully.

Cain was 23 years old during his service in Captain Paulus' Blue Wing, flying under the callsign 'Renegade' and Viper designation Blue Three. He was born in the Pinnacle Mountains on Sagitara.

Notes

• This character is part of a separate continuity that mixes elements from the Re-imagined Series and Original Series as well as unique material. It is not a canonical item in either series.
• Garris Cain is the video game's counterpart of the Original Series character Commander Cain and the Re-imagined Series character Admiral Helena Cain.

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Rear Admiral Lucinda Cain is operations director of Project Jupiter during the First Cylon War.

Following the Destruction of Picon Fleet Headquarters, Cain assumes command of Colonial Fleet and marshals a force capable of defending against the Cylon threat (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock).

During the fall of the Daidalos Shipyard, Lucinda stepped down from command of Colonial Fleet. At first assumed missing during the fall of Daidalos, she somehow survived its fall and reappears in the 10th year of the war as the field commander of the Ghost Fleet Offensive under Admiral Sarkis who had by then taken over command of the entire Colonial Fleet. When she reappears as field commander of the Ghost Fleet, she is shown to have suffered greivous injuries including half of her right arm missing and scars across her face.

In a conversation with Helena Agathon, Lucinda reveals that she has a granddaughter by the name of Helena Cain.

Concept Art

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  Unused character concept created by Sam Nilson. Front view.
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  Unused character concept created by Sam Nilson. 3/4 view.

Notes

• Cain is the grandmother of Helena Cain.

References

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Commander Cain is a Patton-esque military commander of the Twelve Colonies of Man, commanding the battlestar Pegasus and the Fifth Fleet during the Thousand Yahren War.

Comics

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Cain
Cain as depicted by Johnny Desjardins in Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #1.
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Cain in the primary continuity
Artist Edu Menna's take on Cain in Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #6.

Following the Battle of Gamoray, Pegasus escapes via a lightspeed maneuver with Cain and his crew surviving the encounter, unbeknownst to Galactica.

Two sectares following Gamoray, he considers transferring command of Pegasus over to Iollas, his long-time friend of thirty yahrens and executive officer, as he misses his daughter deeply.

He abandons that idea following the transmission from the last known living Cylon woman, Kali, and leads a small team to the interior of the hollow planetoid (Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #1).

While separated from his security detail after landing on the planet, he speaks to Kali and encounters a man who pistol-whips him unconscious. It is after he regains consciousness that he is "convinced" to heed Kali's every word by this same entity (Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #1 & #5).

As such, Cain finds himself executing upon decisions that he would not normally make, including jailing his own daughter, Sheba, after she questions his actions (Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #5).

Following Sheba's escape from the brig, she makes her way to Pegasus's bridge finding that the battlestar has opened fire on the two Galacticas. Kali's control over Cain is broken when she shoots Sheba, who dies in Cain's arms. In retaliation, Cain breaks Kali's neck, and orders all hands abandon Pegasus. With great anger and shame over what he has allowed to happen, Cain destroys the basestar that Iblis commands by ramming Pegasus into it—joining his daughter in death (Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica #6).

Notes

Cain's appearance changes mid-way through Battlestar Galactica vs. Battlestar Galactica series, as Edu Menna completed the back-half of the six issue series from Johnny Desjardins.

Realm Press

Cain is a legendary Commander in the Colonial Fleet, renowned for his brilliant military mind and his relentless pursuit of the Cylons. He is the commander of the battlestar Pegasus and the father of Sheba.

Prior to the Battle of Molecay, he commands the Fifth Fleet, spearheading the war effort against the Cylons. His command is characterized by a relentless and single-minded drive to end the Thousand-Yahren War, sparing no expense or resource in this quest (Daddy's Girl).

Sheba feels immense pressure as a cadet to live up to his reputation and prove that she is more than just "Daddy's Girl". When he learns his daughter is in danger after faking launch codes for an unauthorized mission, he personally leads the rescue mission to save her. He finds Sheba in a cave just after she has fought off several creatures and comforts her, telling her that everything is fine now that he has arrived (Daddy's Girl).

Cain and the battlestar Pegasus were thought to have been lost for many yahrens, but resurfaced to save Galactica and her Fleet from a Cylon ambush before disappearing once again into the vastness of space (1999 Tourbook).

References

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For the canonical character from whom this depiction is based, see: Cain (TOS).

For other separate continuities from other comics and novelization sources, see: Cain (TOS alternate).

Lord Cain is the commanding officer aboard Pegasus.

For a time, Lord Cain and Lady Athena engage in a romantic relationship that Archduke Adama disapproves of.

Athena believes that Cain perished aboard Pegasus during the Cylonic attack against the Twelve Colonial Empires (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 1).

A message purporting to be from Cain reaches Adama, summoning Galactica to Gemini. However, this proves to be a mere ruse, as a fleet of Cylonics lead by Baltar await Adama and his small fleet of six ships (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 2).

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Captain Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain is Galactica's CAG after the Cylon War, as well as during the time Lieutenant William Adama is stationed aboard the battlestar (Battlestar Galactica: Origins 5).

Cain is a career military woman who divorced her husband well before the Battle of Tauron, with whom she had two daughters, Helena and Lucy Cain. The divorce occurs as a result of her unwillingness to give up flying Vipers.

In the days following the end of the war, Cain is assigned to Galactica as CAG when the ship is ordered to hunt for a rogue Cylon cell called the Annihilators. During her tenure, she proceeds to push Adama and the pilots under her command to their limits, but earns their respect, particularly in Adama's case. She takes a special interest in Adama, as he becomes her right hand man and both become friends who often spar against one another through pyramid.

On a mission to hunt down the remaining Annihilators at Trinity Base, Galactica is boarded by Annihilators en route to that base, where the Cylons manage to decompress the ship and begin turning Galactica's weapons towards the battlestars accompanying her: Ulysses and Cerberus. A nuclear missile is fired before Cain, Adama, and a team of surviving crew members in EVA suits are able to remove the Annihilators from Aft Damage Control. However, in the process of securing it, Cain is stabbed through the chest by a Centurion, mortally wounding her.

As part of his promise, Adama delivers two letters that Cain had written to her only surviving child, Helena, and to Cain's own parents, who had apparently survived (Battlestar Galactica: Origins 5, Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6).

Notes

• In "Razor," Helena Cain's mother is named Saundra Cain and dies on Tauron during the final minutes of the Battle of Tauron.
• Cain's callsign, Pugnacious, is a term for someone who is eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight, which aptly describe this character.

Cain (Amok Time)

"Commander Cain Limited Edition Collectible Figure" An item of merchandise of the Original Series
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Character	Cain (TOS)
Amok Time (2008)
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The Commander Cain Limited Edition Collectible Figure is an 1/6-scale mixed-media figure, and is part of the Amok Time release circa 2008, following their take-over of the Original Series license from Majestic Studios after its dissolution in 2007.

As is typical of 1/6-scale mixed-media figurines, this piece features multiple points of articulation (rotating head, arms, legs), is clothed using materials that replicate the look of the costume worn by the character, and includes certain accouterments.

To aid in the display of the figurine, the piece comes with a two-piece display stand consisting of a display base with the show's logo and the support arm that cradles the figure around its torso.

The figurine was officially cancelled in 2010, when Amok Time's license for the Original Series 1/6 scale line expired.

Accessories

The figure was billed as featuring "classic BSG accessories" and display stand, and accessories were not itemized in sales descriptions from the Amok Time's online listing circa 3 March 2008.

Outfit

The ensemble worn by Cain are his personalized Warrior's uniform (jacket, tunic, pant), plus weapons belt with laser pistol, and brown knee high motorcycle boots. As to be expected, Cain features his ascot and brooch.

Prototype

A prototype for this figure was shown at Toy Fair in 2008, and displayed alongside some gallmonging Cylons (Commander and Centurion) and Lucifer figurines.

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Face Sculpt

A point of comparison to Majestic Studios' figures, Amok Time's prototypes featured greater accuracy on their likeness to the character whom portrayed them.

Head sculpts for the prototypes were art directed by Amok Time's Charles Eugeni and Paul Lazo, and executed by Joy and Tom Studios.

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External Links

• Amok Time: Commander Cain Collectors Action Figure Listing (web.archive.org backup link)

References

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• Cain (TOS)
• Helena Cain
• Lucy Cain
• Cain (father)
• Garris Cain
• Lucinda Cain
• Cain (TOS alternate)
• Cain (1880)
• Cain (Amok Time)
• Alexa Cain