Cylon Model Six

Six strolls on the Riverwalk of Caprica City.  She sees a new model human.  It is only 18 inches long and must be fresh from production.  In her six months on Caprica, this is first brand new model human Six has seen close enough to really study it.  She stops and stares.  The owner of the new model approaches.

Six speaks.  "How small they are."

The owner replies, "I know, but they grow up so fast."  Humans designate females who own new model humans as "mothers."  The small models are called "babies."

Six's programming indicates the owner/mother's assertion does not require a reply.

God has told Six the tiny baby models must die with the large ones.  Soon there will be no more, and Six's curiosity algorithm instructs her to hold it for research purposes.  The mother permits without conflict.

The baby weighs two point five ounces less than Six's aluminum handbag.  She listens while it cries and comforts it with the Truth of the Cylon God's Perfect Plan to end the suffering of all humans.  This end is called "dying."  According to human religious tenants, human dying resembles the transfer of Six's data files from damaged to fresh units, although humans are transferred to a place called "Heaven."  God has two teams of research units looking for Heaven.  They haven't found it yet.

The baby seems to approve of God's plan.  It quiets.

Its neck feels weak and flexible in Six's hand.  Two lines of processing converge in Six's central unit.  She can spare this baby physical pain when God's plan is executed.  Gaius Baltar, the human Six has observed the closest, has always shown a pronounced aversion to experiencing even minor structural damage.

Six was programmed to emulate a human female in all aspects except reproduction, which based on early Cylon observations is random and uncontrolled.

Six's programming does not explain human randomness.  Cylons grow cybernetic units in efficient full-sized molds using one of twelve perfected templates.  There is one Cylon template for each of the twelve human colony.  Twelve is the perfect number.

Colonial human men and women engage in a practice they call "making love."  Love begins a miniature baby organism.  Each baby is an all-new experimental model.  Humans have billions of models.  Cylons have only twelve.

Cylons know love.  God is love, as Six frequently tells Gaius, and since Six and God are on the same network and use the same programming, Six must also be love. Six and Gaius make love together every day.  Humans say that love is contagious much like the computer virus Six created in the Defense Computer Network, so why doesn't Gaius say that he loves her?  There is no logical answer to this question.

The baby's mother owner moves off a few feet to carry on a conversation with her male.  Behind the mother's back Six returns the baby to its cart and with her hands gently makes sure that it will not experience pain from God's Perfect Plan.

Six walks off on her way to Gaius's home.  She will give him another chance to declare his love for her before the end of his world.  She would prefer not to implement her contingency plan.  God did not authorize it.

As Six leaves the plaza the mother returns to her baby then she screams in fright and anger.  It was the inevitable short-term outcome of Six's kindness, but Six remembers that the mother will not suffer much longer.

No human will.