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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3086558" data-attributes="member: 22424">I'm inclined to think they are different things, with different causes.Phantom Six has shown too much insight of the precise details of Cylon activities and plans to be simply a delusion (see the precisely-timed warning to Baltar to leave Galactica at the end of Season One, the prediction of the hybrid child, and so forth). I'm inclined to think that something has been done to Baltar, although quite what I'm not sure.Phantom Baltar, however, I think is a delusion. My suspicion is that the Cylon's have become more human than they think. I think they consider the 'human' models to be nothing more than machines, when in fact they are almost as fragile (especially psychologically) as we are. Consequently, they thought nothing of sending Six (and Boomer) on long-term infiltration roles, not realising that she would form close emotional bonds with humans (esp Baltar), and would in fact fall in love with him. When the time came to fulfil her programming and betray Baltar, she did so, at great strain. Couple this with the stress of dying, and something snapped.As for the precise symptoms... whatever was done to Baltar to cause 'Phantom Six' was probably done by Six herself. Therefore, knowing what was done to him, and given that he was the human with whom she associated most closely, she generated her own Phantom, specifically of Gaius Baltar.At least, that's my current theory.</blockquote>

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