Oh wow, this is amazing. You made me feel such sympathy for Baltar - which, now that I've read through some of the comments, maybe wasn't quite what you were going for, which is funny because I'm not much of a Baltar-fan. But I thought this really got at the ways in which he's controlled by his own illusions - self-created though they may be. I can't really single out a favorite part, because it's all so perfectly chilling - oh wait, the very end with the slow clap as he bleeds out would have to be it. :D Brilliant work!