Gaius Baltar
Gaius Baltar is a male television character who features in Battlestar Galactica.
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Biography
Gaius Baltar was a male human who was born a citizen in the Twelve Colonies of Man where he claimed to had been born and raised on a dairy farm outside the town of Cuffle's Breath Wash on Aerilon. He was said to had found the local dialect to be unpleasant and when he was 10 years old he began to train himself to speak without the Aerilon accent. On his 18th birthday, he came to leave Aerilon where he turned his back on his family and heritage. He came to be the lead defense systems developer working for the Colonial Ministry of Defense and rose in prominence as a computer technology designer with him winning three Magnate Prizes. Over time, the charismatic Baltar came to be a personal friend of President Richard Adar.
He came to be involved in a sexual relationship with a blonde woman. Believing her to be working for a corporation in the defense industry, and desiring a more permanent relationship with her, he gives her access to the highly classified Colonial defense mainframe so her employers can have an advantage in future contract bidding. In exchange for his access to the government mainframe, she helps him design a navigation program used by Colonial warships, covertly creating backdoors in the program. When the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, they use those backdoors to penetrate software security firewalls, disabling entire fighter squadrons outright and sabotaging vital capital-ship systems. On the day the Cylons attack humanity, the woman reveals she is an advanced Cylon, model Number Six, and she used the information that Baltar gave her to shut down the Colonial defenses, thus making him responsible for the Cylons' successful genocidal campaign against the Twelve Colonies. Baltar managed to survive the nuclear explosion that destroys his home due to Caprica Six using her body to shield him. As a result of the nuclear blast, Number Six is killed, and as a Cylon her memories are automatically "downloaded" during the blast to be later resurrected, as revealed in later episodes. For the duration of the series, Baltar is haunted by a version of Six only he can see. This woman toys with alternate explanations for her existence, from a Cylon chip in his brain sending signals, to an hallucination created out of guilt over the attacks, and thirdly to her being an Angel sent by God to watch over him, and Baltar finally assumes the latter following a medical checkup and rationalising that her extraordinary information to solve problems cannot simply be his own mind. Having unintentionally brought about the near-annihilation of the human species, Baltar flees Caprica when Karl Agathon gives up his place on a Raptor, feeling that his own life is less important to save than a famed scientist's. The Raptor returns to the Battlestar Galactica, where Baltar attempts to endear himself to Laura Roslin, the new President of the remnants of the Twelve Colonies, and hopes to conceal his involvement in the genocide that has taken place.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He had dry, cynical sense of humour but was prone to bouts of neurosis.
Baltar was shown to be extremely arrogant.
Powers and abilities
In time, he came to be a noted computer technology designer for the Colonies.
Notes
- Gaius Baltar was portrayed by actor James Callis and featured in the rebooted Battlestar Galactica universe.
- The character was an adaptation of Count Baltar from the original Battlestar Galactica series.
Appearances
- Battlestar Galactica:
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