Reply #33: Interesting, thanks!

[Babel_17]

Going from that, supposing that is mostly true: Assume there was a hybridization, but the vast majority of humanity wasn't let in on it. But a mistake was made, they created the toasters/still used toasters but didn't predict they would eventually evolve enough to come up with their own agenda. The toasters didn't know the battle was already won.

It could also be the case that toasters would never have come to oppose the colonies. But the colonies also created AI's and they became the root source of the later problems. The BSG from the seventies utilized the plot device of a much more advanced line of toasters. It's hard to see the centurions of todays BSG as having ever come up with the ambitious plans needed to have set things in motion.

Omg, another thought: In the very beginning of the series, and then later on, it's mentioned that Baltar worked with the mainframe computer of Caprica's defense. I have to wonder, Baltar being Baltar, did he use unauthorized methods? Did he maybe use a direct link of some kind? Assuming the mainframe was inhabited by an AI, that could explain chip six, the cylon that is in his head.

Though that scenario could exist by itself, Caprica Six could have interfaced too and then created the means to get in Baltar's head.

I have to admit, I'd rather it didn't turn out that everything was predetermined.