Dylan Hunt (Andromeda)

Dylan Hunt is a male television character who features in Andromeda.

Biography

Dylan Hunt was a member of the intergalactic Systems Commonwealth High Guard. Dylan was born in Visharna-Tarn, a city on the Commonwealth's capital planet, Tarn-Vedra, to a Paradine father employed as a highly paid gardener at the Imperial Gardens and a mother employed as a genetically enhanced high-Gravity World Shuttle pilot. Dylan served two years as an Enlisted Man. He then attended the High Guard Academy and graduated with honors. He served in Argosy Special Ops and commanded or served on the Crimson Eclipse. Immediately prior to his command on the Andromeda Ascendant, he was given a secret mission to extradite the dictator Ferrin from the planet Mobius so he could stand trial on Tarn-Vedra for war crimes. When he confronted Ferrin, he was shot in the side and Ferrin was killed. The mission was still seen as a success by the High Guard, and Dylan was given command of the Starship Andromeda and his partner on the mission, Nietzschean warrior Gaheris Rhade, was made his First Officer.

He dated Sarah Riley for several years and they were going to get married until Dylan was presumed dead or lost at the Battle of Hephaistos.

The Andromeda Ascendant was placed on what was believed to be a routine rescue mission to the Hephaestus system. Upon arrival, he discovered the distress call was a trap and found himself ambushed by a massive Nietzschean fleet of over 10,000 ships. Realizing the Systems Commonwealth was under surprise attack, he ordered his entire crew to evacuate via escape pods so they could warn the rest of the galaxy while he stayed behind to pilot the ship through a risky slingshot maneuver around a rogue black hole. During this desperate escape, his first officer and best man, Gaheris Rhade, betrayed him, sabotaging the ship and engaging Hunt in hand-to-hand combat. Hunt ultimately won the struggle by fatally shooting Rhade, but the battle occurred so close to the event horizon that the Andromeda became trapped in a state of extreme time dilation. Three centuries later, a salvage crew aboard the Eureka Maru pulled the ship free, and Hunt awoke to discover that 303 years had passed and the Commonwealth he served had completely collapsed. Finding his ship occupied by intruders, he donned his battle gear and began hunting them through the corridors, eventually pinning the engineer Seamus Harper to the ground. After being informed of the Long Night that had befallen the universe, a devastated Hunt issued a ship-wide ultimatum for the scavengers to leave or face the full force of the Andromeda. Despite his initial grief over losing his world, he eventually convinced the motley salvage crew to join him in a seemingly impossible new mission to restore civilization and rekindle the light of the Commonwealth. (Episode: Under the Night)

Meanwhile, the avatar of the black hole freed Dylan, or at least his Paradine part, from the time dilation and they pursued a relationship, but when the Eureka Maru started to pull the Andromeda from the black hole the Paradine half of Dylan "re-merged" with his human half. Though the Black Hole's Avatar Marida tries to convince him to stay, she fails.

Dylan was rescued when the Eureka Maru attempted to salvage the Andromeda. He convinced the crew of the Maru to join him and help him restore the now fallen Systems Commonwealth. Although they lacked the military training and efficiency of his old crew, because they were so few in number, he was able to get to know them personally to an extent that he could not get to know his previous, far larger crews; that, added to the emotional vulnerability he felt at being stranded 300 years in his own future, the knowledge that the civilization he had lived in all his life had collapsed (and he, a military officer pledged to defend it, had failed to save it,) and the pain of being betrayed by his first officer and closest friend, meant that Dylan bonded with them to a far greater extent than he had ever done in the Commonwealth, resulting in them becoming more like a family to him than a simple crew. Over the course of their mission, he came to see Beka Valentine as his closest friend, and formed equally close bonds with Seamus Harper and Trance Gemini, although his relationship with Tyr Anasazi was generally strained; although they could depend on each other in a fight, Dylan knew that, in the end, he could only "trust Tyr to be Tyr".

He helped form a small Restored Systems Commonwealth, with about 50 member worlds.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Dylan Hunt was a tall and physically imposing human male with brown eyes and dirty blonde hair. (Episode: Under the Night)

Powers and abilities

Dylan is human, half genetically enhanced because his mother was a Heavy-Worlder, descended from a race of superhumans genetically engineered to live on the harsh and hostile environments of high-gravity alien planets. Because of this, he is much stronger and faster than the average human with him being able to match the abilities of a Nietzschean.

When he found out his father was a Paradine (a human-like offshoot of the infamous Vedrans), he learned that he also had space-time manipulation powers, although it took him a while to learn how to use them.

Notes

• Dylan Hunt was portrayed by actor Kevin Sorbo where he featured in the setting of the Andromeda universe.

Appearances

• Andromeda:

External Links

• Andromeda Wiki Entry

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