Eligius III

Eligius III
Eligius III file on screen
Type	Colony ship
Located	Currently unknown Alpha orbit (former) Earth orbit (former)
Inhabitants	Its crew and colonists

The Eligius III was an interstellar spaceship owned by the Eligius Corporation which originated from Earth. Its mission, which was launched before the First Apocalypse, was to tap for oil on a far away habitable world since Earth's oil resources had been virtually depleted. The ship was also supposed to leave behind colonists to see whether or not a planet could be survivable.

The ships complement of crew and passengers were inoculated with Nightblood; allowing them to withstand the increased radiation from the habitable world's two suns. However, according to Emori, she says that the radiation levels are good.

The ship's status, as well as that of the crew and its mission, wasn't known to the survivors aboard Eligius IV. It was assumed the ship arrived at its destination; however, this can't be verified because the mission was launched shortly before the Nuclear Apocalypse. It's unknown if they made any attempts to communicate with Earth in the intervening years.

History

236 years before the Eligius IV arrived on Alpha, Eligius III was assigned to a colonizing mission. It visited five different habitable worlds. It first arrived on Alpha, due to to the village on the world having infinity symbols on banners. This shows that Becca Franco helped with tech on Eligius III.

Inhabitants

These were original residents of Eligius III.

Alive

Russell Lightbourne

Gabriel Santiago

Mission

Phase One of the mission was to test whether or not a settlement could successfully survive on each habitable world. Phase Two was to populate the colony using embryos. Supplies such as motorcycles, nightblood, guns, food, water, building supplies and other materials were given to each group to try to survive.

The Alpha mission successfully built a settlement and a radiation tower after learning about the eclipse and the bugs. 

Throughout the Series

• Season Four
• Season Five
• Season Six

In The Tinder Box, Jackson indirectly refers to Eligius III by telling Abby that Becca first developed the Nightblood for the Eligius Mining Company to protect against solar radiation for long space missions.

In Sleeping Giants, After seeing that Clarke Griffin has black blood, Miles Shaw mentions a ship called "Eligius III" had Nightbloods on board.

In Pandora's Box, Raven shows Murphy a list of four Eligius-class ships.

In Damocles (Part 1), Eligius III was mentioned as Diyoza says that they weren't criminals.

In Damocles (Part 2), Monty reveals in his video message that Eligius III was sent to a new habitable world to tap for oil, since Earth's oil supplies had run out, which is the same world the Eligius IV is now orbiting.

In Sanctum, Bellamy reveals that according to the file, Eligius III was a colonizing mission and it went to 5 planets that met necessary conditions for life, dropping mission teams on each one. Eligius III came to the first habitable world called, "Alpha." The Lightbourne family, aboard the ship are also introduced. Jordan Green and the others deduced that Eligius III had arrived on Alpha about over 200 years ago.

In Red Sun Rising, a flashback shows that in 2045, a mission team from Eligius III is on Alpha. They decided to name Alpha, "Sanctum". Later, one of the members of the mission team suffers a psychosis.

In The Children of Gabriel, it's revealed that the original Prime colonists became a royal family of the current settlement because of their special blood.

Appearances

Season Four
Episode	Appearance Status
Echoes	Absent
Heavy Lies the Crown	Absent
The Four Horsemen	Absent
A Lie Guarded	Absent
The Tinder Box	Mentioned
We Will Rise	Absent
Gimme Shelter	Absent
God Complex	Absent
DNR	Absent
Die All, Die Merrily	Absent
The Other Side	Absent
The Chosen	Absent
Praimfaya	Absent

Season Five
Episode	Appearance Status
Eden	Absent
Red Queen	Absent
Sleeping Giants	Mentioned
Pandora's Box	Mentioned
Shifting Sands	Absent
Exit Wounds	Absent
Acceptable Losses	Absent
How We Get to Peace	Absent
Sic Semper Tyrannis	Absent
The Warriors Will	Absent
The Dark Year	Mentioned
Damocles (Part 1)	Mentioned
Damocles (Part 2)	Mentioned

Season Six
Episode	Appearance Status
Sanctum	Mentioned
Red Sun Rising	Mentioned
The Children of Gabriel	Mentioned
The Face Behind the Glass	Absent
The Gospel of Josephine	Absent
Memento Mori	Absent
Nevermind	Absent
The Old Man and the Anomaly	Absent
What You Take With You	Absent
Matryoshka	Absent
Ashes to Ashes	Absent
Adjustment Protocol	Absent
The Blood of Sanctum	Absent

Gallery

• Dedication to the Eligius III crew.
• Eligiud III Outpost Misssion Team Alpha 6x02.png
  Eligius III Outpost Mission Team

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Notes and Trivia

• Jason Rothenberg said that we will learn more about Eligius III in Season Six.
• According to Rothenberg, Eligius III was sent to the planet 236 years before Eligius IV arrived there.
• Individuals from Eligius IV know some things about Eligius III. Miles Shaw and Charmaine Diyoza talk about them having blood alteration and being sent to a habitable moon. Diyoza and Paxton McCreary also converse about them saying that the Eligius III crew were not criminals, hinting that they were aware of their mission.