the last voyages // 2. video. no filter.

[tobecaprican]

[ Somewhat less ruffled than the first time he transmitted a video, but only just, Gaius Baltar sits in view of the camera, nursing a cigarette, and looking faintly disturbed. He is also dressed like a pirate, from the elegant open-throated shirt through to gold-buttoned waistcoat. The bandanna has been left to hang around his neck, and there are a couple of rings on his fingers that are somewhat chunky and antiquated.

They glint a little as he takes another drag from his cigarette. It's a self-medicating technique so he doesn't freak out at people over phones again. He's just spent a few days believing he was a pirate, never you mind. When he poses his question, it's quite measured; ]

Does this happen very often?




OOC: I may still pirate!Baltar backtag a bit, but. \ oAo/

Comments

[Private]

[tobecaprican]

I can't even express to you how illegal such research would be, where I'm from. But you, ah.

Seem to be doing alright for yourself.

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

Somewhat.

I've heard in a different universe where genetic engineering occurred, the products were banned from existence among humans. My own people were reasonable for millennia before... circumstances changed.

I've spoken to some of the individuals on board. Those that designed people, and those that were designed. Some of them were taught not to see themselves as people. Some of them were mistreated by others that feared them, and told they had no right to exist.