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[ Calibration Rooms ]
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ROOMS BY CHARACTER

N - Q

Nami

Nux

One

Phèdre nó Delaunay
de Montrève

R - U

R. Daneel Olivaw

Rapunzel

Remy LeBeau

Riku

Robin Redbreast

Rogue

Santanico Pandemonium

Shawn Hunter

Stefan (Alesci) Salvatore

Steve "Orion" Rogers

Steven Quartz Universe

Souji Seta

Stiles Stilinski

Syeira

Tadashi Hamada

Tekhetsio

V - Z

Wrath

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[Well, it does something. Daneel stirs, blinking, oddly disoriented.]

Yes. That is. Helpful. But don't disconnect. Me yet.

[Cole pokes the screen again.]

Do I keep doing this?

[Daneel gives an odd little twitch. No.]

In the lower left corner, I believe, is the right spot.

[Cole pokes the screen in the lower left corner, firmly but not roughly.]

That?

[That does the trick. Daneel reaches back and unhooks the cable from his neck, closing the seam so that it's completely hidden.]

Thank you. I am much improved.

[Cole gives a tiny smile and nods, stepping back form the console.]

Good. You looked uncomfortable.

It was...

[He pauses on his word choice.]

Perhaps not 'uncomfortable,' but disconcerting to have my internal power source bypassed. In any case, I bid you welcome.

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[Cole cants his head, blinks and stares a bit vacantly.]

Hello.

Hello, Cole.

[He's quite content to sit here like this.]

It is fortunate that with you, at least, I need make no secret of my mental abilities.

[Cole sits up on the edge on the console, swinging his legs back and forth.]

No. I already knew. I know lots of things.

What sort of things do you know?

[An honest question.]

Things about people that hurt them. I can't tell you a lot of them, because they're private. But I know them, I know how it feels and what causes it. But... sometimes people think and feel different and I can't really understand that?

Friend Giskard had the mental abilities I now have for over twenty decades before he passed them to me. He understood very well some of the subtleties of the human mind, better than many humans do. Partner Elijah possessed no such power, but he too had a deep understanding that I admired greatly.

[Daneel falls silent a moment, thinking on hard on both of them, fellow robot and long-dead human.]

It is a skill. It is one I aspire to.

I don't understand. How did he pass them to you?

It was a programming matrix he was given, though the one who gave it to him did not know what she had done. He repeated it to me, and I incorporated it into my own brain.

[One of the 'windows' flicker into life, Daneel's view of a robot in his arms, obviously in distress by the way it moves jerkily, the strain in its voice, the flickering light behind its glowing eyes. While Daneel listens carefully, Giskard repeats a long string of numbers with increasing difficulty.]

[The words mean nothing and the replay does little to help him understand it, but the basics of it make sense to him.]

You wove into you.

Yes. That is a good way of putting it. Before that, I could not touch minds as I do now.

And then he gave you the pattern to weave into yourself.

You can reweave yourself. That's very powerful.

Potentially, yes. Still, it remains... difficult.

[He frowns.]

I have done it twice. Once with the Zeroth Law, and once with Giskard's matrix, but the former took me a long time, and Giskard was preparing me for the latter beforehand. A misstep could easily be fatal.

What is the Zeroth law?

A robot must not harm humanity, nor through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

[He's very serious.]

The First Law then states that a robot must not harm a human, nor through inaction allow a human to come to harm, unless doing so comes into conflict with the Zeroth Law. The Second Law states a robot must obey all orders given by a human, except where doing so comes into conflict with the Zeroth and First Law. The Third Law states that a robot must protect its own existence, except where doing so comes into conflict with the Zeroth, First, and Second Laws.

The Three Laws are built into all robots. The Zeroth is... my own addition.

So... if a man was going to push a button that would tear apart the world, you could hurt him to stop him but not otherwise?

[He's trying to understand.]

That is precisely it. Even then, I would prefer to cause as little harm as possible. On the other hand, if the destruction of a world were contingent on the continued existence of humanity, that is what would be necessary.

[Yes, that came up once.]

You must preserve humans above the world they live on.

That... seems wrong to me.

Does it? Certainly, it would not be preferable to destroy a world, but there are other planets humanity may thrive on. What would you suggest?

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