NAME: Samuel T Anders (Longshot) FANDOM: Battlestar Galactica (BSG: 2004 series) AGE: Unknown: but Michael Trucco is 38, so we'll go with that! ALIGNMENT (GOOD, EVIL, NEUTRAL): Good... he hopes! BRIEF BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
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.
PLEASE DO NOT CANON PUNCTURE MY CHARACTER!
[ooc: DISCLAIMER: I am not Sam Anders, nor am I Michael Trucco, nor do I own them. This journal is for RPG use only and no disrespect is intended.
For parabolical players- Sam comes in during the season 4 first episode "He That Believeth in Me" first aired on April 4 2008
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