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Galatea
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Galatea was under the command of Captain E.W.B. Sim as a unit of the 15th Cruiser Squadron; Force B was returning to Alexandria from an unsuccessful search for Italian convoys going to Benghazi. On the night of 14th December 1941 Galatea was attacked by German dive bombers; the attacks persisted for about seven hours. Just before midnight, when north west of Alexandria, Galatea became a target for U-557 which hit her with two torpedoes in quick succession. The cruiser turned over and sank in three minutes, this is reported variously as being at 31deg 12 min (or 17min) N, 29deg 15min E. Captain Sim, 22 officers and 447 ratings were killed. About 100 survivors were picked up by the destroyers Griffin and Hotspur.
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All of this would be wasted effort if Galatea herself were boring. She's not. Whatever her ultimate nature turns out to be in a given playthrough, she is Not Like Us. Her skin sparkles with tiny quartz crystals. She speaks of how it felt to have her eyes drilled in and what it's like to travel in a crate. This is awesome.
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The classic tale of Galatea has her as an exquisitely carved statue made by the woman-scorning sculptor Pygmalion who came to life after the goddess Aphrodite granted his prayer. As far as Prometheans are concerned, the tale is a lovely, if fanciful version of the real story. Pygmalion was not a sculptor, but an outcast ostricized by the others of his island for his lack of graces and tact. Rather than a statue, the original Galatea was the corpse of a beautiful woman from the island who was brought to life through an ancient ritual. Some say the woman died of natural causes. Others say she was a bride-to-be who Pygmalion somehow stole away, either through love or by force, and was then somehow accidently or intentionally killed by poison.
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Galatea has all of the normal Kryptonian powers of Superman and Supergirl: super-strength, flight, super-speed, invulnerability, heat vision. She is stronger than Supergirl due to her being artificially aged to adulthood (though Supergirl is able to overcome her in both their battles).
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Galatea departed New York 21 February 1864 for service as a unit of the West India Squadron. Based at Cape Haitien, where she arrived 29 February, she gave convoy protection in the West Indies to California mail steamers plying between New York and Aspinwall (Colon Panama). She had twice returned to New York for repairs by 10 November 1864 when she was assigned with two other ships to convoy California mail streamers from Cap Haitien through the Windward Passage, between the islands of Nacassa and Mariguana. During this cruise leaks developed which made Galatea unfit for arduous convoy duty. Remaining on station at Cape Haitien, she cruised to key West for provisions and dispatches and afforded protection to American citizens in Haiti until convoy service was discontinued in June 1865.
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After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 — Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.
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