Voices from Heaven (
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driftfleet2015-10-20 11:18 am
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- !event,
- ahsoka tano,
- coil lenn,
- margaret "peggy" carter,
- nami,
- natasha romanoff,
- nelkeila tarid,
- nyssa al ghul,
- octavia blake,
- one,
- phèdre nó delaunay de montrève,
- r. daneel olivaw,
- rapunzel,
- remy lebeau,
- riku,
- robin redbreast,
- rogue,
- santanico pandemonium,
- shawn hunter,
- sokka,
- stefan salvatore,
- steve rogers (ou),
- steven quartz universe,
- stiles stilinski,
- syeira,
- tadashi hamada,
- tekhetsio,
- the vision,
- vash the stampede,
- vima sunrider,
- wanda maximoff,
- wrath,
- yamanaka ino
...And also these.
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Yes. I am operating on my own power now. Please, help me disconnect.
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Do I just... twist it?
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[He reaches back, pulling open the seam in his neck around the cable.]
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Are we good? Operations normal?
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Everything as it should be, Dr. Crusher. Thank you for your assistance. Did you need something?
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They appear to be. Interesting.
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[Still. He does have secrets. She doesn't seem... shocked in any way, so that's reassuring.]
What did you learn?
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[He takes a deep breath, because he does find this upsetting, however long ago it was.]
He... was not the target. The culprit was an extremist who wished to destroy me, but Dr. Sarton answered the door of his apartments that day. Dr. Fastolfe arranged it so that I was the Spacer representative in the homicide investigation.
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We did. Partner Elijah was able to show that the culprit's vision was impaired at the time, and he was not able to tell that Dr. Sarton was not myself.
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[It's a tricky question, and one he's thinking hard on. It seems to trigger a memory; one of the windows flickers into life, Daneel's view again. This time, it shows a long-faced man, in the interior of a spaceship.]
"How about 'roboticide'?"
Daneel's voice, then, politely attentive: "Roboticide?"
"As the term used to describe the killing of a robot."
"But what about the verb derived from the noun, Partner Elijah? One never says 'to homicide' and it would therefore not be proper to say 'to roboticide.'"
"You're right. You would have to say 'to murder' in each case."
"But murder applies specifically to human beings. One does not murder an animal, for instance."
"True. And one does not murder even a human being by accident, only by deliberate intent. The more general term is 'to kill." That applies to accidental death as well as to deliberate murder-- and it applies to animals as well as human beings. Even a tree may be killed by disease, so why may not a robot be killed, eh, Daneel?"
"Humans beings and other animals and plants as well, Partner Elijah, are all living things. A robot is a human artifact, as much as this viewer is. An artifact is 'destroyed,' 'damaged,' 'demolished,' and so on. It is never 'killed.'"
"Nevertheless, Daneel, I shall say 'killed.' Jander Panell was killed."
[Elijah Baley's face flickers away, and Daneel continues, as though this display were perfectly normal.]
Such terms of grammar aside, If I had been destroyed, Partner Elijah would likely not have been employed to investigate, and would not have risen to the prominence he eventually had. Subsequently, it is highly unlikely his son would have been able to lead the second wave of colonists from Earth that followed. History would have been... different.
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I’m glad you were not… destroyed. Nonetheless, it must have been hard for you. Dr. Sarton was one of your creators, one of the first people you saw when you were first activated. I imagine he was - is - important to you.
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[That's not a bad thing. But it's not something he's used to.]
Still, Dr. Fastolfe was responsible for much of the design of my brain, and I am humaniform in that respect as well as in appearance. Perhaps it is less of an imposition than I imagine.
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