Dillon

1978 Continuity (Battlestar Galactica 1978 and Galactica 1980)

General infomation
Occupation:	Warrior
Physical description
Species:	Human (Galactican)
Sex:	Male

Lieutenant Dillon was a Warrior who served on Galactica late into its journey to Earth.

Biography

Whether Dillon was born in the final days of the Thousand Yahren War or was born a refugee in the rag-tag fugitive fleet is uncertain, though when he grew up he is known to have joined the Colonial Fleet, where he was trained as a Viper pilot. During his career he became a close friend of Cpt. Troy, the adopted grandson of Commander Adama. Their career for some time was uneventful, owing to a change in Cylon planning to shadow the fleet, convincing many the Cylon threat was purely theoretical. This theory was forced into standard procedure following the discovery of Earth, which was determined to be technologically and politically unfit to resist the Cylons. Over a dozen Warriors were assembled and sent out to various parts of Earth with orders to influence the development of technology; Troy and Dillon were assigned to influence technological development in the United States.

Soon after their arrival, the team's Vipers were detected by US military aircraft, spawning a military investigation, and though they had the technology to camouflage their Vipers the power cells soon died and were discovered by a stray child. Troy and Dillon in the meanwhile had trespassed in the Pacific Institute of Technology, where they were mistaken for eco-terrorists and arrested after interfering with Dr. Donald Mortinson's machine equations. The two however escaped their cells and later met up with Mortinson and a reporter, Jamie Hamilton, where they brought the two to Galactica to explain their situation. While there it was discovered a rogue scientist had stolen a Viper equipped with a time-travel device, having planned to give advanced space technology to Nazi Germany. Dillon, Troy and Hamilton followed in a similarly-modified Viper and were able to sabotage the project.