The Imperious Leader quotes from Battlestar Galactica (1978)

By your command.

The Imperious Leader

Speak, Centurion.

All base ships are now in range to attack the Colonies.

The Imperious Leader

The final annihilation of the life form known as man. Let the attack begin.

Flight Leader Serpentine, by your command.

The Imperious Leader

Report, Centurion, on the final assault.

On each of the twelve planets, a similar story is told of a handful of ships that escaped destruction to rendezvous with a warship.

The Imperious Leader

What kind of warship?

The Battlestar Galactica.

The Imperious Leader

Then go and seek out Baltar. Tell him I'm displeased. Tell him I've offered a choice: Deliver the Battlestar Galactica or deliver his head.

The Imperious Leader

Welcome, Baltar. I have grave news. A handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them.

What of our bargain? My colony was to be spared!

The Imperious Leader

I now alter the bargain.

How can you change one side of a bargain?

The Imperious Leader

When there is no other side. You have missed the entire point of the war.

But I have no ambitions against you.

The Imperious Leader

Could you think me so foolish as to trust a man who would see his own race destroyed?

Not destroyed - subjugated! Under me!

The Imperious Leader

There can be no survivors. So long as one human remains alive, the Alliance is threatened.

Surely... you don't mean me.

The Imperious Leader

We thank you for your help, Baltar. Your time is at an end.

No! You can't! [A Cylon Centurion begins to draw his sword.]

The Imperious Leader

[orders his Cylon Centurion to stop.] No. Not now, Centurion. Remove him for public execution.

The warriors continue to advance, at least six squadrons.

The Imperious Leader

Recall all raiders to defend base ship!

Our raiders are all destroyed.

The Imperious Leader

All destroyed? How? We took them by surprise.

Apparently it was not as big a surprise as we had hoped for.

The Imperious Leader

Retreat closer to Carillon! Below their scanners!

There are reports of fires on Carillon. It is dangerous to move closer.

The Imperious Leader

I said lower! Or they will destroy us!

By your command.

The Imperious Leader

You are Baltar?

[chuckles] It's as if you don't remember, hmm?

The Imperious Leader

My predecessor has left me with a difficult choice.

Your... predecessor?

The Imperious Leader

Was destroyed by your peers. A foolish miscalculation of the will of your people.

I... I tried to warn him! I... I could've helped! I could've prevented his...!

The Imperious Leader

Yes. I have examined your epistle suggesting you would be able to locate the humans.

Why, yes. Oh, yes. I... I think as they do. I... I know where they will go, what they must do...

The Imperious Leader

I find your reasoning logical.

Then... I am to be...

The Imperious Leader

Spared.

To serve the Empire!

The Imperious Leader

No. To serve your people. To help us extend the hand of truce.

Truce?

The Imperious Leader

My predecessor was programmed at a time when our Empire was less capable of tolerance. Now that we are omnipotent, we can afford to be more charitable. You will explain my policy of good will. I have spared you. I will spare them.

They are... not likely to be receptive.

The Imperious Leader

I will send with you a base star, entirely under your command. Lucifer!

The Imperious Leader

I have examined your epistle suggesting you would be able to locate the humans.

Why, yes. Oh, yes. I... I think as they do. I... I know where they will go, what they must do...

The Imperious Leader

I find your reasoning logical.

Then... I am to be...

The Imperious Leader

Spared.

To serve the Empire!

The Imperious Leader

Lucifer! [Lucifer approaches the Imperious Leader and stands next to Baltar] I'm sending you a base ship entirely under your command.

[walking with Baltar] It will be my pleasure, Baltar. I think I can assure you, with some sense of pride, you will inherit the most capable Centurions in all the Empire.