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Caliban ( or ) is the second-largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus. It was discovered on 6 September 1997 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J. Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope together with Sycorax and given the temporary designation S/1997 U 1.
Designated Uranus XVI, it was named after the monster character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Caliban is a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Caliban may also refer to:
- Caliban (moon), a moon of Uranus
Caliban is one of the main antagonists in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. He is the subhuman son of the malevolent witch Sycorax.
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: C#Caliban
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Caliban (also known as Arduin Dungeon Number One) was a standalone short story and gaming module written in 1979 by David A. Hargrave and published by Grimoire Games. It was based upon Hargrave's gaming system known as Arduin. It is the first of only four standalone "dungeon" books created by Hargrave as an extension of his Arduin Multiverse, which at the time of Caliban's publication was known as The Arduin Trilogy.
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For a moment, Caliban toyed with the idea of venturing to the closest of those boundaries, just to see what it was like.
It took the better part of an hour, but at last Caliban had worked his way across the whole of the map of Hades.
As the dawn broke full over the horizon, Caliban stood at the edge of where the map said there was only emptiness.
With Caliban broken free of the lab, with Fredda unconscious, there was no one else in the wide world who could ask the question.
When Caliban first approached a busy intersection, the datastore showed him a diagram of the correct procedure for crossing a street safely.
HOURS went by, and still Caliban walked the streets, still deeply confused, uncertain what he was searching for.
It was a tiny woman, slender, thin-boned, easily a full meter shorter than Caliban, clearly weaker and far more frail than he was.
NIGHT had come, and still Caliban walked the streets of the city, watching, thinking, learning.
But even if the datastore contained no information on robots, Caliban had at least the resonances in the datastore, the remnant hints left behind by whoever had assembled the datastore and then excised the robot data.
On the very few occasions in which Caliban saw a robot not working, not fetching or carrying or repairing or building, then that robot would be waiting, standing stock -still, staring straight ahead, unwilling--or perhaps unable--to do anything at all unless it was told to do something.
The man seemed to be assuming that Caliban had some other means of communication, though Caliban had no other.
It suddenly dawned on Caliban that he had never spoken in all the time since he had awakened.
How could this human expect Caliban to know the philosphy of a group he knew nothing about?
The datastore offered up an answer, something about the concept of a rhetorical question, but Caliban ignored the information, mentally brushed it away.
The datastore reported that the sensations of drunkenness were often pleasurable, though Caliban could not see how that could be so.