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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3086704" data-attributes="member: 710">That's certainly a possibility. (Though still a big coincidence, but each theory had its weaknesses <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )I think these "insights" aren't as precise as one might think.What was the warning to leave Galactica good for? Baltar was in no real danger on Galactica (he was not Boomers target. The worst case would have been being arrested together with the President, and that is certainly not as dangerous as being shot down over Kobol!)The theory on him being mad and having purely delusions about Phantom Six could explain it this way: Baltar didn't want to cope with the responsiblities of the Vice President. He wasn't really politically interested. He just had a unpleasant experience with Starbuck (I'd assume such a thing has never happend to Baltar the Womanizer). He might even have feared that somehow Roslin would find about his treachery when he would work so close with her. So, he wanted out. Kobol was the right place. It seemed like a nice, beatiful planet. He could do some research there (also something different than analysing thousands of blood samples). So he let his Phantom-Six force him to leave the Galactica...The hybrid child didn't work out as Phantom-Six seemed to indicate - it isn't really their child in the biological sense, though some (not unreasonable) handwaving can be used to show how it is, on a more conceptual level, their child. (Helo gave his seat to Baltar, who was only alive thanks to Six)On other occasions, she showed no indication of knowing anything more than Baltar could know - she didn't point out the vital spot on the Asteroid Mining Facility, she wasn't able to identify Doral as a Cylon (and with only 12 models, I bet they know each other!). (This can still be explained as her being unwilling to help, but why? Or maybe Phantom Six helped him - since both guesses were correct, and she might have manipulated him subconciously)All in all, so far no theory can really be invalidated, but each has its weaknesses...</blockquote>

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