Susan Calvin

Susan Calvin(1982-2064) is a figure known for establishing the three Laws of Robotics.

## **Biography**

Susan Calvin was born as Susan Derkins in Empire Bay, Massachusetts in 1982, where she spent her childhood, growing up  alongside Calvin Locke. Her father, Andrew Derkins passed away and her mother would remarry James Calvin in 1990. She eventually left Empire Bay in 1991 and moved to Arcadia Bay, becoming isolated in her studies. She disliked the study of ghosts including professors such as John Monatgue and Peter Venkman, preferring skeptics such as Richard Strand. She had some interest towards the study of the psychology of violence and crime including attending a lecture by Clarice Starling and wrote a paper on Johann Liebert. Her interests shifted towards robotics after the 1999 MegaTech Incident where several robots took many lives after resorting to military programming. Calvin therefore began considering what the proper limits of artificial intelligence should have been. Her paper on the subject cited the WOPR 1983 incident and the Colossus Incident. After the 2001 Discovery 1 disaster, which was blamed on the AI Hal 9000 going rogue(it actually had secret orders), Calvin argued Machines needed to be created with a set code of Ethics.

After finishing school, Calvin interned at Cyberdyne but left when she realized they did not care about the ethical limits of their machines. She pursued a graduate degree at Miskatonic University and was taught under Professor Velma Dinkley. She coined the term “robopsychology.” This got her the attention of US Robotics and Mechanical Men, incorporated. Figures like Nathan Bateman and Robert Ford argued machines would always be under human control(both ironically would meet ends that contradicted this viewpoint).

When Vampires were revealed to the world, Susan Calvin approached them objectively and moved to study them. Interviewing over 200 Vampires resulted in the 2011 paper  The Psychology of Undeath: Inside the Minds of Vampires. She broke down Vampires into several groups: Reluctant Vampires who saw it as a curse and avoided feeding on humans as much as possible such as Vladimir Tod, Louis de Pointe du Lac and the Cullen family. Then Vampires who enjoyed feeding on humans. Finally there was a middle ground Klaus Mikaelson, Laszlo Cravensworth and Michael Morbius, who saw it as a curse. This proved to just be a phase for Calvin and she resumed her work on robotics. She had a chance to demonstrate her work when creating the supercomputer  MULTIVAC, which was used to declare the winner of the 2008 election, choosing David Palmer and then choosing him again in 2012. Calvin reunited with her old friend Calvin Locke and the two had a daughter, Bacon Locke. Susan Calvin refused to change her name. Calvin was spurred into leaving her job for Peter Gregory in Silicon Valley by the opening of the Pacific Rim in 2014, working on the creation of Yeagers. She also travelled to Japan to study the EVA program in Japan to improve the Yeagers. Calvin was critical of the use of Replicants, including after incidents in the Rossum Corporation and the Tyrell Corporation which justified her concerns. The early prototypes to the Yeager would inspire Tak Mashido to create robots capable of boxing, which in 2020 would replace humans entirely after Mashed and Calvin’s robot Zeus defeat champion Adonis Creed in the ring. She also began working on a project in 2020 to transfer a human brain into cyberspace as part of the Amaya team, which was also tied to her work on studying how much the human brain could survive the strain of a Yeager.

Calvin grew distant and would leave Calvin Locke, who took their daughter with her blessing. Susan Calvin then pursued a brief relationship with the equally distant Paul Redeker, who had previously worked on the Draka Apartheid system. She also worked with people seen as despicable CEOS such as Steve Lift and Peter Isherwall. In 2020s, David Jefferson Adams, Presidential Candidate, declared the results of the recent election fraud, blaming Multivac and placing many including Calvin under arrest. She was intentionally given a kangaroo court with criminal lawyer James MCGill as her Lawyer. Fortunately, McGill proved extremely competent and successfully defended Calvin. She was released and joined anti Adams movements. She stood agains the suppression of the Gabriel Bell Riots and  was outspoke of the crimes committed by the WorryFreeCorporation, who in the 2020’s was discovered to have been working to turn humans into Equestrians. She was largely in California during this time which made a move to join the Allied States of America. In 2025, The Greater Hun Chiu Republic invaded the weakened California, a situation worsened by Skynet launching Terminators. The Resistance led by John Connor pushed back these threats and allied with NAN, the United Canadian and American States, even pushing back The Republic of Gilead, leading to the United States largely reforming under John Shaw. Susan Calvin was instrumental in this victory, engineering a virus to sabotage much of the Systems used by Skynet. It also validated her theories.

Post War the Japanese Miracle was sent overseas to clean up the Radiation and the nation joined the ONAN. Calvin used this to introduce the three laws of robotics though this was opposed in many places by the likes of Gilead’s President Andrew Steele Jarrett and Steve Jordan. President Elizabeth Winters opposed Calvin’s plans due to her own goals to weaponize robots. The opinion on the three laws changed following the Detroit Android Uprising of 2038 and the rise of Zero-One. President Robert McAllistair made the three laws of robotics absolute in the 2040’s.

Calvin had risen to fame. She traveled to the Hyper Base and spent much time observing US Robotics and Mechanical Men robots. She also consulted with the Kwan Do Family on Mars. She also supervised the construction of the Leavitt Towers and was a strong opponent of the Pre Crime Division and the rise of the Judge System. She retired in 2058 and died of natural causes in 2064.