Hybrid

Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit dem lebenden Computer aus der neuen Serie. Für Informationen zu dem zylonisch-menschlichen Hybriden-Kind siehe Hera Agathon.

Hybrid
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Hybrid ist ein Zylon
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Hybrid ist ein menschlich-zylonischer Hybrid
Hybrid ist ein Zylon aus der Originalserie

Ein Hybrid ist eine Einheit, die den ersten Schritt der Zylonen in der Evolution von Maschinen in Richtung organischer Wesen darstellt (Auf Messers Schneide). Ein Hybrid dient als Zentralcomputer auf dem Basisschiff (Virus).

Der Hybrid erinnert an ein menschliches Wesen, das in einer Wanne liegt, die wiederum wie ein Auferstehungstank aussieht. Jedoch handelt es sich hierbei nicht um einen humanoiden Zylonen, sondern um eine andere Art von Zylonen, ähnlich wie die biomechanischen Jäger, speziell konstruiert als lebender Computer, um die autonomen Funktionen eines Basissterns, einschließlich der Navigation, Antriebs-Verwaltung (speziell dem Überlichtantrieb und der Klimakontrolle zu verwalten. Ein Hybrid ist so in die Funktionalität eines Basissternes integriert, dass er das Basisschiff "ist". Die Hybriden können auch in Kontakt mit den Zenturios und möglicherweise auch mit den Jägern treten, wie ein Nummer Acht feststellt - nachdem ein Basisstern mit einem biologischen Virus infiziert wurde, begannen die Jäger sich nach und nach zu deaktivieren, sowie der Hybrid infiziert wurde (Virus).

Die Hybriden haben noch keinen vollständig menschlichen Körper, sondern erscheinen eher wie Cyborgs, mit Leitungen und Anschlüsse an ihren Körper.

Die Zylonen erschufen den ersten Hybriden aus gefangenen menschlichen Zivilisten, welche im ersten Zylonenkrieg zu medizinischen Experimenten herangezogen wurden. Dieser erste Hybrid hat das Aussehen eines alten Mannes, wobei die nachfolgenden Modelle das Aussehen einer jungen Frau haben. Laut Sharon Agathon gilt das Experiment (des ersten Hybriden), als eine evolutionäre Sackgasse und wurde aufgegeben, nachdem die anderen Hybriden (für die Kontrolle der Basisschiffe) geschaffen wurden ("Auf Messers Schneide", Razor Flashbacks).

It appears that a council of seven humanoid Cylons, each representing their particular model and located elsewhere in the basestar's command and control center, generate the collective command decisions that are accepted and executed by the Hybrids. In addition to articulating disagreement with orders, a Hybrid can take autonomous actions on its own, as shown when the Rebel Basestar's Hybrid unilaterally engaged its FTL drives, separating all aboard from the Colonial Fleet. ("Guess What's Coming to Dinner?")

Ein Hybrid der "Nonsens" spricht.

Die Hybriden sprechen fast immer in Phrasen, die wenig Sinn ergeben mit der Besatzung des Basissterns. The utterances appear to be a mixture of system status reports as well as observations of events in and around the basestar that may not be describable in words. Leoben Conoy believes that the Hybrids can hear or understand the voice of God. A Number Three suggests that the Hybrids have seen the place "between life and death" and have been driven mad as a result (Rapture).

A Hybrid's connectivity to its basestar provides it with a remarkable awareness of the surrounding space. They appear to experience a form of ecstasy, perhaps at an orgasmic level, when accomplishing certain tasks such as FTL jumps.

Hybrids have a conscious state that can converse, if only briefly. When Gaius Baltar reaches into the Hybrid's tank and attempts to grab her hand to ask about the missing five humanoid Cylons, the Hybrid grabs him from the arm and looks directly at him, recognizing him as a being with intelligence. She coherently tells him a riddle before returning to her usual speech pattern and catatonia. The copy of Number Three initially objects to touching the Hybrid, suggesting that humanoid Cylons may find physical contact with the Hybrid to be distasteful, dangerous, or a type of taboo (The Passage).

The Hybrid can be disconnected from the basestar, but this is dangerous to it. Moments before deactivating, the rebel basestar's Hybrid delivers an uncharacteristically cogent message to Kara Thrace concerning the dying leader and the Opera House (Faith). On hearing about this Laura Roslin ventures to the rebel basestar to try and talk to the Hybrid. At her bequest the Hybrid is plugged back in, but it immediately jumps the basestar away. Roslin attempts to communicate with the Hybrid, but has little success. Baltar also attempts, claiming a spiritual affinity with the being, but is met with a similar barrage of incomprehensible babble (The Hub).

This rebel Hybrid appears to exercise greater autonomy than as previously encountered, repeatedly jumping the ship without command. Notably, this Hybrid is instantly aware of the shooting of Natalie and the re-activation of a Number Three, events which do not take place upon its ship.

Die Kolonie is controlled by multiple Hybrids, which look identical to the Hybrid on the rebel basestar. Samuel Anders, himself in a Hybrid-like state, is able to deactivate them during the Battle of the Colony. The Colony Hybrids are later involved in an information transfer from the Final Five to the Colony of the specs for resurrection technology, and are sent into distress when Galen Tyrol interrupts the transfer. The Colony hybrids perish when the structure falls into a black hole. The rebel baseship's Hybrid is the only one confirmed to survive the battle (Daybreak, Teil II).

Notes

The original Cylon Hybrid concept art.

• In the original concept art the Hybrid body was "an aquatic slug-like pod with tentacles where the interface connects to."
• Tiffany Lyndall-Knight is credited as the Hybrid for "A Measure of Salvation" and "Hero" but does not actually appear, which may mean that scenes involving the Hybrid were cut from those episodes.
• Ronald Moore, in the "Torn" podcast, notes that the Hybrid should be considered neither humanoid Cylon, Raider, nor Centurion, but an intermediate step between the three, designed for a specific purpose.
• The incoherent but prophetic speech of the Hybrids is similar to that of the precogs in the Minority Report short story, while the visual appearance of the Hybrids resembles that of the precogs in the film adaptation. According to the podcast for "Torn", the movie was a deliberate inspiration when devising the look of the Hybrid.

• The Hybrids are similar to Frank Herbert's Guild Navigators from his Dune series, who, through a combination of technology and mental abilities, can guide spacecraft through space in an apparent-FTL process called "folding space." Like the Navigators, the Hybrids seem to be able to utilize precognition to a greater or lesser extent.
• The computer games Homeworld and Homeworld 2 also feature a woman bio-mechanically linked with the core of a spacecraft for command and control purposes. The neuroscientist Karan S'jet undergoes a similar metaphysical experience as the baseship Hybrid does while she is integrated with the mothership and is suspended in a room filled a liquid substance, much like the Hybrid's tank.
• Additionally, Campbell Lane, who portrays the Hybrid in "Razor" and the Razor Flashbacks, also provided the voice over for the Bentusi character in the Homeworld series. Lane's character was also bio-mechanically linked to a starship.

Siehe auch

• Erster Hybrid
• Hybriden Aussagen, für eine Auflistung von Phrasen die von den Hybriden gesprochen wurden.