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=== Morbius and Altaira ===

=== Morbius and Altaira ===

Shortly after the ship lands, a very fast hovercraft rushes out to meet them. Its driver is a [[robot]] who, though he looks ungainly, addresses them politely and announces that he has orders to transport them to "the residence." Adams, executive officer Jerry Farman, and ship's surgeon Ostrow ride to the residence. There they meet Morbius, who is in a much more polite frame of mind than he was when he gave that urgent warning, and Morbius' adult daughter Altaira, who is strikingly lovely and also naive. Quite simply, she remembers no human beings other than her father. Morbius explains that every other member of the ''Bellerophon'' crew and expedition died violently at the hands of "a force that never once showed itself," to which force (which also destroyed the ''Bellerophon'') Morbius and his wife (who died a few months later of unexplained "natural causes" were somehow immune. He also demonstrates some of the capabilities of his robot, named "Robby." He can not only walk, talk, and drive a hovercraft, but can synthesize virtually any substance or object, edible or otherwise, on demand, and gives instant, selfless, unargued obedience to any command—except only a command to kill a human being, which produces a state of mind block until the person giving such an order cancels it. Morbius boasts that he built the robot, but won't explain how he could build him. Robby, quite simply, is a product of a technology more advanced than anything that the United Planets has come up with, not to mention that the engineering involved is ''not'' Morbius' field of study.

Shortly after the ship lands, a very fast hovercraft rushes out to meet them. Its driver is a [[robot]] who, though he looks ungainly, addresses them politely and announces that he has orders to transport them to "the residence." Adams, executive officer Jerry Farman, and ship's surgeon Ostrow ride to the residence. There they meet Morbius, who is in a much more polite frame of mind than he was when he gave that urgent warning, and Morbius' adult daughter Altaira, who is strikingly lovely and also naive. Quite simply, she remembers no human beings other than her father. Morbius explains that every other member of the ''Bellerophon'' crew and expedition died violently at the hands of "a force that never once showed itself," to which force (which also destroyed the ''Bellerophon'') Morbius and his wife (who died a few months later of unexplained "natural causes") were somehow immune. He also demonstrates some of the capabilities of his robot, named "Robby." He can not only walk, talk, and drive a hovercraft, but can synthesize virtually any substance or object, edible or otherwise, on demand, and gives instant, selfless, unargued obedience to any command—except only a command to kill a human being, which produces a state of mind block until the person giving such an order cancels it. Morbius boasts that he built the robot, but won't explain how he could build him. Robby, quite simply, is a product of a technology more advanced than anything that the United Planets has come up with, not to mention that the engineering involved is ''not'' Morbius' field of study.

Altaira demonstrates another unique ability: Morbius has a small zoo consisting of two white-tailed [[deer]] and a Bengal [[tiger]], all of which are perfectly tame under her "influence." That will become important to remember later on.

Altaira demonstrates another unique ability: Morbius has a small zoo consisting of two white-tailed [[deer]] and a Bengal [[tiger]], all of which are perfectly tame under her "influence." That will become important to remember later on.