R. Daneel Olivaw

Character from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A twenty-thousand-year-old humaniform robot who has secretly guided humanity since the dawn of space travel — the true architect behind Seldon, the Plan, and possibly all of galactic civilization.

Also known as: R. Daneel Olivaw, Daneel, Eto Demerzel, Chetter Hummin, Demerzel

What They Know

• The Zeroth Law: a robot may not harm humanity, or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm — he derived this himself, the only robot to do so
• His positronic brain is slowly degrading after twenty thousand years; Gaia/Galaxia may be the solution to continuing his mission
• He arranged for Hari Seldon to develop psychohistory by creating the social conditions that made the mathematics possible
• Dors Venabili is a robot he assigned to protect Seldon — her 'death' protecting Raych was part of the calculated cost
• Earth is radioactive and abandoned, its location suppressed from galactic records to prevent it becoming a nationalist rallying point
• The Genetic Dynasty of cloned emperors was influenced (in the TV continuity) by his behind-the-scenes manipulation
• He has worn hundreds of identities across millennia — First Minister, academic, merchant, wanderer — each perfectly maintained
• Gaia was his ultimate project: a world-mind that could extend the Zeroth Law to a galactic scale without requiring a single robot

Connections

• created — the Seldon Plan
• mentor_of — hari_seldon
• commands — dors_venabili
• serves — cleon_i
• ally_of — gaal_dornick
• ally_of — trevize
• ally_of — bliss
• member_of — Galactic Empire
• located_at — trantor
• created — gaia_planet
• rival_of — brother_day
• serves — humanity
• ally_of — hari_seldon
• commands — brother_dawn
• serves — brother_day

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