Sam "Longshot" Anders is (not so) secretly a Cylon's Journal

SAM ANDERS

FULL NAME: Samuel T Anders
NICKNAMES: Longshot, Toaster
CURRENT AGE: Unknown, approx mid 30's
DATE OF BIRTH: Unknown
PLACE OF BIRTH: Unknown

MARITAL STATUS: Dating Lorelai Gilmore
SEXUALITY: Straight
OCCUPATION: None
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Zenner Building

frakking toaster,

THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF WAY OUT OF HERE, SAID THE JOKER TO THE THIEF, THERE'S TOO MUCH CONFUSION, I CAN'T GET NO RELIEF ------------------------------------------------------------

Tall, muscular, good looking, Sam Anders is really everything you'd expect a famous sports star to look like, with a casual style and a large grin usually found on his face. He wears a tattoo on his right bicep, the mirror of one Kara Thrace has, a symbol of wings and sun, for their marriage. Even after the marriage ended, Sam refuses to get rid of the tattoo, choosing instead to keep it as a reminder of the good times and the bad with his wife, so he won't forget the harsher lessons he learned from her infidelity.

PERSONALITY & DEMEANOR
See you on the other side

Charming, flirtatious, playful. Sam Anders is open to being friends with anyone, friendly and nonjudgmental. He is friends with women and men, and his easy going nature makes him easy to get along with. As a friend, he is fiercely loyal, always willing to stand up for who and what he believes in. As such he feels betrayal cut deeply whenever his good nature is used against him.

While in one of his lives, he was a celebrity, a famous and successful sports star, Anders loved the game more than the fame, caring deeply for the beautiful mathematics and physics involved with Pyramid, wanting to be part of the perfect pass, the perfect game. No matter what, he never gives up on that idea of perfection.

Anders can be described as headstrong, but he is also pragmatic by nature, accepting when his circumstances change and he has to adapt around them. But one thing he cannot do is surrender. He can never accept when a battle might be lost, whether it is a literal or figurative one, he will fight on to the bitter end.

PERSONAL HISTORY
Easier said than done, 'cause I don't know what the frak I am right now.

Sam was born (or so he thought) on Picon, one of the 12 human colonies. There he has a fairly normal childhood, attending the Noyce Elementary school and developing into a superb Pyramid player, eventually playing for the Caprica Buccaneers. It was while he was leading his team on some high altitude training that the Cylons, unheard from in over 40 years, attacked the colonies, wiping out all but a handful of humans. Sam quickly used his leadership skills to rally those left behind into a tough band of rebels, fighting the Cylons where they could and surviving against all the odds.

After some months he met Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, and helped her escape a Cylon breeding farm. While her ship was only big enough to take herself, Helo and the humanoid Cylon rebel, Sharon back to Galactica and the Fleet, she left her dogtags with Sam, along with a promise to return for him and his people.

While it took some time for her to fulfill her promise, she eventually did, rescuing the survivors of Caprica. Sam had no interest in military life and was among the first to agree to settle on the first survivable planet the fleet found, called New Caprica. There he and Starbuck got married. However, the Cylons found them and quickly took over, their version of 'co-existing' in reality meaning slavery. Sam found himself once again on the front lines of a rebellion, along with Colonel Tigh and Chief Engineer Tyrol. With Starbuck held hostage by the Cylons, Sam lived for months not knowing if his wife was alive as he fought back, killing as many Cylons as he could until the rest of the fleet returned and once again the humans fled the Cylons.

Once they were back in space, Sam tried to reconnect with Starbuck, something he found increasingly difficult. He even trained to be a Viper pilot to try to get her attention, gaining the callsign "Longshot". But still she remained disturbed, eventually going on what appeared to be a suicide mission, leaving him devastated at her 'death'.

He was just on the verge of recovering when he heard a strange music in his head, one that no one else seemed to hear. It drew him to a cargo hold, where he met Tigh, Tyrol and Tori, the President's advisor. It was then they realised the truth. Their lives had been a programmed lie, they were 4 members of what the Cylons called the "Final Five." They were Cylons.

For months they lived in secret, terrified that they would be thrown out of an airlock if they were found out. Upon Kara's 'miraculous' return from the dead, Sam went with her, against the advice of his other Cylons, on a fool's hunt for Earth. They found instead a single Leoben, a model obsessed with Kara, who led them to a group of other Cylons. Unknown to the human Fleet, the Cylons had descended into civil war-the Cavils, the Dorals and the Simons against the Leobens, the Sixes and the Sharons (with the exception of the Boomer Sharon model who did what no other Cylon had ever done before and went against her kind to join with Cavil.) The rebel Cylons wanted to bring back the D'Anna model and live in peace with the humans. Starbuck and Leoben agreed to bring back D'Anna since she knew the identity of the Final Five who would supposedly know the way to Earth. During this mission many rebelled against Starbuck's command, causing Sam to shoot Felix Gaeta in the leg. Because of a delay in getting back to Galactica, Gaeta had the leg amputated.

D'Anna refused to give up the identities easily, trying to play the human Fleet into giving the Cylons more. Frustrated, and still loyal to Adama, Tigh gave up the information himself, exposing himself and his three friends. While Tory escaped to the Cylon ship, Sam and Tyrol used their last moments of freedom to examine the Viper Starbuck had reappeared in, which seemed to be projecting the same song that had triggered them. As the guards came to drag them away, revealing to a shocked Starbuck what her husband really was, Sam begged her to look again at the Viper as the answers for all of them were there. Tigh, Tyrol and Sam were loaded into the airlock by Lee Adama, who Starbuck had been having an affair with, as he tried to threaten D'Anna.