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{{Character Data
|photo=Mathias.jpg
|birthname=Erin Mathias
|seen=Exodus, Part I
|death=[[Heavy Raider]] explosion in "[[The Road Less Traveled]]"
|role=[[Colonial Marine Corps|Marine]]
|rank=Gunnery Sergeant
|actor=[[Eileen Pedde]]
}}
'''Erin Mathias''' is a gunnery sergeant serving in the [[Colonial Marine Corps]].

Under Colonel [[Kendra Shaw]] and Captain [[Kara Thrace]], she leads a team of Marines that boards a [[Guardian basestar|Cylon basestar]] in order to rescue a captured [[Raptor]] crew. When the arming mechanism of their nuclear weapon fails, she prepares a manual switch that Shaw uses to detonate the bomb ([[TRS]]: "[[Razor]]").

During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Mathias leads [[Sharon Agathon]]'s Marine escort on the planet as part of Admiral [[William Adama]]'s rescue operation ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part I]]"). She and her team repel a [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] ambush of a preliminary meeting between Agathon and the New Caprica Resistance under [[Samuel Anders]]. She then accompanies the group back to [[New Caprica City]] to discuss the rescue plan with the resistance leaders ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part I]]"). When Adama's plans are executed, Mathias is placed in charge of the Marines participating n the attack on the [[New Caprica Detention Center]] ([[TRS]]: "[[Exodus, Part II]]").

Following the evacuation of New Caprica, Mathias is involved in a number of key actions. She joins a boarding party that investigates an infected basestar discovered at the [[Lion's Head Nebula]]. She is assigned to execute prisoners retrieved from this baseship in a failed plan to infect the entire Cylon race via the download process ([[TRS]]: "[[A Measure of Salvation]]"). She also leads the Marine force on the so-called [[algae planet]] and is ordered by Lee Adama to detain Samuel Anders when he attempts to rescue his wife ([[TRS]]: "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]"). When Kara Thrace takes President [[Laura Roslin]] hostage, Mathias commands the Marine response team and escorts Thrace to the [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] hangar deck after she is released from the brig ([[TRS]]: "[[Six of One]]").

Mathias is selected to join ''[[Demetrius]]'' on its mission to find Earth under the command of Thrace. Two months into the mission, she dies during an extravehicular inspection of a damaged [[Heavy Raider]] when its reactor explodes ([[TRS]]: "[[The Road Less Traveled]]").

==Notes==
*Ron Moore named the character after Jim Mathias, the high school superintendent that preceded his father at Chowchilla Union High School <ref>{{cite_rdm_podcast|episode=Exodus, Part I|act=1|id=mathias-namesake|timestamp=|totalrunning=}}</ref><ref>{{cite companion|season=3|page=42}}</ref>.

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