Colonial Gaius Baltar

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Gaius Baltar
**Type**: Doctor / Scientist
**Species**: Human
**Height**: meters
**Weight**:
**Gender**: Male

**Dexterity**: 2D

* Dancing: 3D+1

**Knowledge**: 3D+1

* Bureaucracy: 5D+1
* Business: 5D+1
* Cultures: 8D
* Intimidation: 4D+1
* Law Enforcement: 5D+1
* Scholar: 5D+1
* Scholar (S) Geoscience: 9D+1
* Scholar (S) History: 8D
* Scholar (S) Mathematics: 9D+1
* Streetwise: 4D+1
* Tactics: 5D+1
* Value: 4D+1

**Mechanical**: 3D+2

* Astrogation: 5D+2
* Beast Riding: 4D+1
* Communications: 5D+2

**Perception**: 3D+2

* Bargain: 5D+2
* Command: 4D+2
* Con: 4D+2
* Gambling: 8D+1
* Investigation: 4D+2
* Persuasion: 8D+1
* Persuasion (S) Seduction: 11D
* Search: 4D+2

**Strength**: 1D+2

**Technical**: 5D+1

* Armor Repair: 6D+2
* Firearm Repair: 6D
* Capital Ship Repair: 6D
* Capital Ship Weapon Repair: 6D
* Computer Programming/Repair: 10D+1
* Demolitions: 5D+1
* Droid Programming: 7D
* Droid Repair: 7D
* First Aid: 6D
* Ground Vehicle Repair: 6D
* Security: 6D+1
* Space Transports Repair: 6D
* Starfighter Repair: 6D
* Starship Weapon Repair: 6D

**Move**: 10
**Force Sensitive**: No
**Force Points**: 0-5
**Dark Side Points**: 0-3
**Character Points**: 5-15

**Gear**:

**Notes**:

* Advanced Education: Don’t ever forget it’s “Doctor” Baltar. He holds a number of degrees in the various sciences, computer technology, and artificial intelligence.
* Allure: Baltar is an attractive and charming man. Most women and more than a few men are

drawn to him—even those who are aware of his flaws.

* Coward: After the attack, Baltar has found that his attitude toward violence is surprisingly cold. But he is not a man of action and will do anything to save his own skin.
* Lady Luck: He believes that misfortune has followed his every step. In truth, Baltar lives a charmed life. When things seem to be going badly, it often leads to unexpectedly positive results.
* Lustful: Baltar truly loves women. Every woman has a secret beauty—charms that are hers alone. He works to seduce nearly every woman he meets, and never spurns a woman’s advances.
* Mathematician: Among his other talents, Baltar has always been talented with numbers. His specialties lean more toward applied mathematics rather than theoretical.
* Renowned: Over the years, Dr. Gaius Baltar has become the iconic “celebrity scientist” of Caprica. His achievements resulted in his picture on the covers of magazines and have earned him interviews on shows broadcast across the Twelve Colonies. After the attack, his role in helping the President and the military have only increased his cult of personality.
* Unstable: Baltar does not admit this to anyone, but a Cylon woman has appeared to him as a phantom or vision since the destruction of Caprica. She has told him that she implanted a chip in his head so she could transmit her image to him, but he is half-convinced that she is a manifestation of his subconscious playing itself out in his waking mind. Whatever the truth may be, the vision of this beautiful woman makes demands of him, seeming to help or hinder depending on the situation. She claims that she only wants him to love her and to find a monotheistic God.

**Description**: Gaius Baltar was already a legendary figure before the holocaust. A man of science popular with the people, he helped design critical defense systems to keep the Colonies safe. His research once again moved computer technology forward after years of stagnation. Men admired him and women loved him.

Since the attack, his fame has only grown, especially after he was forthcoming about how the Cylons exploited his Command Navigation Program to cripple Colonial ships, after he worked tirelessly on a Cylon detection system, and after he began acting as scientific advisor to both the President and the military aboard the Battlestar Galactica.

Few would suspect that Baltar was originally from Aerelon, or that he was born and raised on a dairy farm. Realizing that people from his world were subject to discrimination and ridicule, he worked hard on losing his accent, adopting one from the upper crust of Caprican society. He turned his back on family and heritage and moved away. Then he did his best to forget it all together.

Fortune smiled upon him. Using a vast intellect, good looks, and charm, Baltar was able to put himself through school. He enjoyed collegiate life and research so much, he extended it as long as possible, pursuing more than one degree. He proved not only brilliant but a good writer and effective communicator. Over the years, he became the very pretty face of scientific development on Caprica. Success brought wealth, fame, and women.

The most intriguing woman of all his conquests was a tall and striking blonde. At first, he believed her offers of assistance were thinly veiled corporate espionage. This intrigued him and only served to deepen his attraction to her. He soon learned that the woman was not only beautiful and passionate, but a brilliant computer programmer. She created code that accomplished many of the goals he had been unable to achieve on his own. Baltar later learned, to his horror, that the woman was actually a humanoid Cylon who had created “back doors” in the Command Navigation Program used by almost the entire Colonial Fleet, and provided an easy way for the defense network to be shut down remotely. Thanks to Gaius Baltar’s infatuation with a beautiful woman, the Twelve Colonies of Kobol were defeated in a matter of hours. As horrible as the holocaust was, his top priority became escaping the destruction of Caprica and hiding his involvement.

Baltar’s luck saved his skin once more when the ECO of a downed Colonial Raptor recognized the celebrated scientist and offered him transport to his baseship, Galactica. His status as a famous scientist quickly brought him into the inner circle of both the newly appointed President and the command crew of Galactica. Haunted by the phantom image of his Cylon lover, his major concerns, as always, are living as well as possible and furthering his own ends.

Perhaps because of his hard upbringing and the difficult choices made as a child, Baltar is narcissistic and mostly incapable of empathizing with others. While capable of great things, his desires are generally shallow comforts. He feigns humility, but in truth he craves and loves the spotlight of mass admiration.

**Source**:

* Battlestar Galactica (page 40)
* thedemonapostle