TV-Series :: Battlestar Galactica :: Character Guide :: Lieutenant / Captain Karl C "Helo" Agathon

Karl "Helo" Agathon was the ECO on board the Raptor piloted by Sharon "Boomer" Valerii. After the initial attack on the colonies, a fleet of vipers was sent to engage the enemy ships, with Boomer and Helo's raptor as the scout - unfortunately, after the vipers were hit a Cylon missile damaged their ship, and they were forced to land on Caprica.

While repairing the ship, Boomer and Helo were set upon by numerous survivors of the nuclear attack - including Gaius Baltar. After deciding that all the children, plus five other survivors who were chosen at random, would fly back with them to Galactica, Helo recognised Baltar - and heroically gave up his seat on the raptor so that Baltar, one of the "most brilliant minds" of the Colonies, could return to the fleet.

But that was not the end of Helo - he spent the next few weeks fighting the Cylons on Caprica, running through the forests and woods trying to find a way off the planet. And he thought his luck was in when, just as he was to be killed by a Six, Sharon shot her dead - but unbeknownst to Helo, Sharon was actually a Cylon, and a different Sharon to the one currently back with the fleet. Together, they headed to Caprica City, to try and find a way off the planet. Of course, Sharon was working with the Cylons all this time, but it wasn't clear just what their plan for Helo was.

Over time, Sharon and Helo fell in love with each other, and consummated their relationship. It was at this point that Sharon decided to betray the Cylons - and the two found themselves on the run, for real. And just as Starbuck returned to Caprica, sent by Laura Roslin for the Arrow Of Apollo, Helo learnt that Sharon was now pregnant - and then learnt from Starbuck that Sharon was a Cylon.

But that didn't change the way Helo felt for Sharon. The three of them continued to work together, to find a way back to the Fleet. Once they did, what they found was that the fleet was split in half - Apollo, Roslin and Zarek being the half that they joined up with. After Adama joined the fleet back together at Kobol, Helo continued to be a part of Sharon's life, in spite of her living in a cell. It made Helo's life onboard Galactica hard, as many of his crewmates did not understand how he could love a Cylon - even one that was on their side. When the Pegasus rejoined the fleet, and Helo and Tyrol learnt that Sharon was to be tortured and raped by their "Cylon Interrogator", they rushed to her defence, unwittingly killing the man in the progress. Admiral Cain immediately called for their deaths, as punishment for what she saw as treason, but eventually Adama managed to save them.

Helo continued to serve the fleet, as well as conduct his relationship with Sharon - until the birth of their hybrid baby, Hera. Roslin was adamant that the baby not be raised by Sharon, nor did she want to risk any other Cylons that might be in the fleet attempting to steal the baby - and so ordered Doc Cottle to fake the baby's death. This seemed to be the end for Sharon and Helo, as she went off the deep end after Hera's "death", refusing to help either Helo or Galactica.