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 Baltar post-Battle of Galaxy's Edge as depicted in Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #2. | ||
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| Birth place | Cygnus | |
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| Introduced | Battlestar Galactica Annual 2014 | |
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| Parents | Sela† (father) Unnamed woman† (mother) | |
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| Role | Traitor to the Human Race, Cylon Advisor | |
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| Baltar is a Cylon | ||
| Baltar is a Final Five Cylon | ||
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- For the canonical depiction of this character, see: Baltar (TOS).
Baltar is the sole child of Sela and an unnamed woman residing on the planetoid Cygnus, the base of Sela's tylium mining operation. In his quest for power over tens of yahrens, he becomes a pawn of the Cylon Empire, leading to the destruction of the life-form known as Man.
Early Life and Cygnus[edit]
Following the death of his mother, Baltar loses the shield that prevented his corruption by both vice and avarice as he follows the path of his father Sela. Taunted by riches in the form of a tylium nugget, he soon learns of his value in his father's eyes, for Baltar is whipped for attempting to steal it. Those scars are not only psychological but also physical, lasting throughout his life.
In the yahrens to follow, Cygnus' importance as a brimming tylium mine becomes known to the Cylon Empire, and they invade Cygnus with little resistance. Sela, Baltar, and others are kept alive as laborers to mine tylium; Sela and various cohorts elect to undermine the Cylons by planting radiation charges secreted throughout the mine. Sectons away from detonating the charges, Baltar betrays his father to the Cylon Commandant in exchange for escape from Cygnus.
The Cylons keep their word. Baltar's revenge against his father meted by robotic hands, while he is given a shuttle and manages to pilot it to Picon. After voicing his views that the Cylons were better than the Capricans, Baltar becomes an outcast child who survives on his wits. As he grew older, he acquired a scholarship to University of Picon. By graduation, the Colonials reclaim Cygnus from the Cylons, and Baltar returns to rebuild his father's business. In this task, he befriends Abel, who becomes the closest person Baltar has ever had to a sibling.
From Cygnus, Baltar and Abel build Baltar's fortune over ten yahrens, finding other sought after tylium sources. His influence propels him into politics, advocating for Cygnus to be formally recognized by the Colonies as an official territory of Picon (Battlestar Galactica Annual 2014).
Exile[edit]
Baltar is humanely exiled on a habitable world (Battlestar Galactica Annual 2014 & Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #2) per the arrangement Adama made with Baltar for his assistance in the Battle at Galaxy's Edge (TOS: "The Hand of God").
After a half-yahren in exile, he destroys the short-range transmitter Adama provisioned him and has a period of deep introspection, revealing a hidden memory regarding his execution that leads to the question of his nature. Through means unknown, a Raider lands near his shipping container encampment, commanded by the Commandant, who has Baltar dragged into the ship (Battlestar Galactica Annual 2014).
Later, Baltar finds himself transported from that isolated world and set upon another world in a separate realm outside of the known universe, the de facto leader of a congregation of other survivors who arrived there via a black hole. Unbeknownst to him, this was Iblis doing, merely as more bait for the trap he laid for the Seraphs (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #2, #4).
Following a battle that destroyed a Ship of Lights—tearing a hole back into the regular universe—Baltar and Lucifer find themselves side-by-side again, representatives of the Cylon Empire in a new peace brokered by the Seraphs between the remaining humans and the Cylons (Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #5).
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