Who is count iblis

It will lead these people as it has led you to surrender to their justice. Sheba : [overly relaxed mood, very unusual for her] Starbuck, Apollo, you don't seem to get the point. Look, we're all saved, so relax. Sheba : Come on, Apollo. Why don't you let me offer you a little consolation? Count Iblis : [coming nearer, grinning] What a wonderful idea.

Count Iblis : They make a handsome couple. I, uh, somehow had the impression you were interested in Sheba for yourself. Starbuck : Hmm. Count Iblis : I can see you and I are gonna be soul mates. Sign In. Iblis tells the trio that the ship was destroyed by the " great powers ," but refuses to elaborate further TOS : " War of the Gods, Part I ". Apollo and Starbuck later return to investigate the remains. Revealing that the radion levels Iblis' warned about were a ruse, they discover the remains of Iblis' former followers.

Sheba, having given herself to Iblis, pursues them to the remains and attempts to stop their discovery; Apollo and Starbuck attempt to convince her to look into a compartment, but is thwarted by Iblis, who suddenly appears.

Not logged in Create account Log in. Battlestar Wiki. He also takes possession of Boomer 's body in a Triad game on the Rising Star when the Warrior comments that he would do anything to beat Apollo and Starbuck. This happens with Boomer's consent, though he does not explicitly know that he has done so at the time. All of this further cements Iblis' position within the Fleet.

Yet, ironically, when battle stations are called, and the pilots are too tired to respond, he severely chastises and threatens them. Of course, those who oppose the ways of evil and hatred watch such a being, and spheroid-like specters appear and disappear at random. Iblis instills what people would call "the fear of God" into people who see the lights, including Sheba, who stays close to this incarnation of evil itself.

Adama, on the other hand, opposes him, joins with Tigh and a few others; essentially a minority, though still threatening to Iblis' power. For the time, the majority supports Iblis, since he seems to do more than the mortal Adama can. Had it been discovered that Iblis was the one who helped foster the Cylons that destroyed the Colonies , he would be cast out by a majority of the Fleet.

This was discovered, in part, by the captured Baltar's recognition of Iblis' voice being the same as the Imperious Leader 's. When Apollo informs Adama that he is going back to the planet to find out what is in the wreckage, Adama informs him that he would do his best to avoid being scanned by Iblis.

Paye as having treated Apollo after his return from death at the hand of Count Iblis. Paye's only actual appearance in the series was in "Exodus" , treating Cassiopeia's injured arm. That he was a being of evil who was found out?

Would the denizens of the fleet believe him? In the novel, Adama mentions in his journal that they simply told the fleet that the white lights called Iblis back to where he'd come from, but he had fulfilled his promise to them by supplying the potential Earth coordinates actually given by Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba.

In a story set 20 yahrens later in "War of Eden" Part 4 , Iblis foretells of what he sees as his soon-to-come victory over the Galactica and ruling over the civilians of the fleet, most of them not knowing why he disappeared all those yahrens ago. Why were the 9 other Viper pilots abducted? Were they also part of the Beings of Lights' attempt to judge the evolutionary potential of humanity?

Were any of these pilots also given subconscious information of any kind as Apollo, Starbuck, and Sheba were? The 9 other missing warriors are found on the red planet after the Galactica suddenly received distress signals from their ships. The dining room seen at the end of the episode and seen in previous episodes is in Adama's quarters.

Larson reveals that they shot a scene of Iblis' body in the ship's wreckage and it was shown to have cloven hooves like the Christian devil. The network made them take the scene out. Page 79 reveals that some of the members of the Council of Twelve are the same ones who were there before the destruction of the Colonies.

Others, of course, were elected from within the fleet to fill the vacant positions. The novel reveals that the triad game in which Apollo was choosing not to participate, was actually a game for the championship. Page 84 reveals that when Apollo chose not to participate in the championship triad game, a young med tech called Doc Hansen, was going to be Starbuck's partner in the game.

On page 85, Doc Hansen is concerned that the crowd will not accept him in lieu of Apollo on the triad court. Not much help, Starbuck jokingly admonishes, "Try shaving off your beard and walkin' around like you've got a broomstick up your ass.

Maybe that'll fool 'em. In the novel, Apollo is lying on his bunk in his own quarters rather than in the pilots' barracks as in the episode, when Boxey enters and shuns him.

Not only does Boxey shun him for being a coward for his refusal to play in the triad game, Muffit even growls at him presumably sensing the boy's attitude! Page 89 describes cans of baharri being thrown at Doc Hansen on the triad court. Baharri has only previously been mentioned as a drink in the novelization of "The Living Legend".

The description of it being in cans suggests to me that it may be analogous to beer. Doc Hansen loses his temper when the spectators start throwing cans of baharri at him, and he calls them a bunch of combrids with nictitating membranes. A nictitating membrane is a secondary eyelid for protection and moisturization found in many birds on Earth. Perhaps more importantly, it is found in some reptiles, so it may be a derogatory term for Colonials as representing the original reptilian Cylons; if true, "combrid" may be a particularly loathsome Colonial reptile.

The novel goes into quite a bit more detail of the championship triad game, including Boomer's ruthless play and blank, possessed look that lends further support to the probability that Count Iblis was actually playing through him.

Page uses the Earth mythological term "Dionysian" to describe the scene of Count Iblis seated in the lounge of the Rising Star with Sheba curled up against him and two other women reclined at his feet.