- Name: Marvin
- Position: Ship's Robot
- Assignment: SS Heart of Gold
- Personal
- Race: Sirius Cybernetics Android, Genuine People Personality Prototype
- Gender: none
- Age: new (when stolen)
- "died" on Preliumtarn in Galactic Siderial Year 03797 at over 576,000,003,579 years old
- Attributes
- Fitness: 4
- Strength: +1
- Vitality: +2
- Coordination: 2
- Intellect: 6
- Logic +2
- Presence: 2
- Psi: 2
- Range: +2
- Skills
- Computer (Programming) 9 (10)
- Culture (Galactic) 5 (6)
- Energy Weapon (Kill-O-Zap® Ray Gun) 5 (6)
- History (Galactic) 5 (6)
- Physical Sciences (Physics) 5 (6)
- Propulsion Engineering (Quark Drive) 5 (6)
- (Improbability Drive) (6)
- Receptive Telepathy 3 (4)
- Security (Security Systems) 5 (6)
- Shipboard Systems (Flight Control) 5 (6)
- Space Sciences (Astrogation) 5 (6)
- World Knowledge (General) 2 (3)
- Traits
- Alertness +2; Excellent Vision; Excellent Hearing; Excellent Chemoreception; Infrared Vision; Mathematical Ability; Engineering Ability; Deppressed
- Other Statistics
- Courage: 0
- Renown: 50
- Aggression: 0
- Discipline: 10
- Initiative: -10
- Openness: 0
- Skill: 30
- Resistance: 5
- Background Notes:
- When the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation first developed and patented the Genuine People Personality feature, Marvin was a prototype model. His neuromechanical Micro-Sub-Meson computer brain gives him superior intelligence, but unfortunately he believes fervently that everybody regards him as a simple "menial robot" and generally hates him—and this belief is usually self-fulfilling. He has been taken apart, reassembled, damaged, repaired and blasted through the eddies of space, time and probability so many times that, although he died on Preliumtarn in Galactic Siderial Year 03797, he exists -- often in several places at once -- from one End of the Universe to the other, and currently seventeen times as old as the Universe itself.
- Appearance and Personality:
- Height: 1.8m
- Mass: 300kg
- Complexion: grey metal
- Hair: none
- Eyes: glowing red
- Though he is beautifully constructed and polished, he looks somehow as if the various parts of his more or less humanoid body don't quite fit properly. In fact, they fit perfectly well, but something in his bearing suggested that they might fit better.
Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Instead, the crew request him merely to carry out mundane jobs such as "opening the door". Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast intellect. Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent than a human (or 30 billion times more intelligent than a live mattress), though this is if anything, an underestimation. When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer, Marvin simultaneously managed to plan the entire planet's military strategy, solve "all of the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe, except his own, three times over", and compose a number of lullabies.
|
