Bardo

This article is about the planet Bardo. You may be looking for episode Welcome to Bardo.

Bardo
Type	Uninhabitable planet
Located	Unknown
Inhabitants	The Disciples, Bellamy Blake
Population	Unknown

Bardo is a planet without a breathable atmosphere. It was one of the destinations of the Eligius III mission and is the home of the Disciples.

Early History

Bardo was one of the few planets selected by the Eligius Corporation to colonize by the Eligius III mission. It eventually become home to the Disciples, probably the descendants of the Eligius colonists who settled the world.

Throughout the Series

Season Seven

In From the Ashes, some of the Disciples arrive through the Temporal Anomaly from Bardo and kidnap Bellamy Blake. Three are taken down by Echo and one of their HUD's identifies Gabriel Santiago and Echo with orders to capture and not kill them and to take the two back to Bardo. However, they are under orders to kill Hope Diyoza on sight. One, wounded but still alive, attempts to kill Hope, but is shot dead by Echo. With the Anomaly closing, presumably done by the remaining kidnappers to keep anyone from following them, Gabriel, Hope and Echo chase them through the Anomaly together.

In The Garden, Hope, Gabriel and Echo arrive on Skyring where Hope explains that the Disciples then used the Anomaly to travel to Bardo. However, while Hope has the code for the Anomaly Stone on a paper she kept in her arm, the code was washed away, keeping the group from traveling on to Bardo. Hope believes their only chance of reaching Bardo is in five years when they come back for their current prisoner, though with the time dilation this would likely be a shorter time on Bardo. Exploring Doctor Colin Bensen's Memory Drive, Gabriel discovers that Colin figured out the code for Bardo, but his computer is destroyed before they can record it.

In a flashback, ten years after Octavia Blake and Charmaine Diyoza arrived on Skyring, a team of Disciples arrive through the Anomaly from Bardo, having received a message in a bottle Octavia had tossed into the Anomaly in the hopes of it reaching Bellamy. The Disciples kidnap the two women and presumably bring them to Bardo.

Residents

Current

• Bellamy Blake
• The Disciples
  • Anders
• Charmaine Diyoza

Former

• Three of the Disciples ^†
• Various Disciple prisoners ^†
  • Dev ^†
  • Orlando

Appearances

Season Seven
Episode	Appearance Status
From the Ashes	Mentioned
The Garden	Mentioned
False Gods	Absent
Hesperides	Absent
Welcome to Bardo	Absent
Nakara	Absent
The Queen's Gambit	Absent
Anaconda	Absent
The Flock	Absent
A Little Sacrifice	Absent
Etherea	Absent
The Stranger	Absent
Blood Giant	Absent
A Sort of Homecoming	Absent
The Dying of the Light	Absent
The Last War	Absent

Notes and Trivia

• Due to planet's very distant location or possibly the presence of the Anomaly, the communication signal is very weak.
• The people sent to bring Bellamy, Echo and Gabriel back to Bardo are human with Anomaly tattoos that match Hope's but are different from Octavia's.
• Compared to the soldiers of Sanctum and Children of Gabriel, the Disciples from Bardo use highly advanced technology, judging by their weapons and armor. Whether or not this is related to Eligius or whether its simply technology that they developed over time is not yet clear though.