![]() HAL originally started as a developer of computer games, primarily for the MSX. The company was founded by Satoru Iwata, who later became the chairman of Nintendo. ( 株式会社ハル研究所, Haru Kenkyujo = Hal Laboratory Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese game developer who are best known for their Kirby, Adventures of Lolo, and Super Smash Bros. The Discovery is consumed in the blast after the Leonov breaks away to safety.HAL Laboratory, Inc. The Monoliths engulf Jupiter, causing nuclear fusion that transforms the planet into a small star. When Chandra finally tells HAL the truth, he willingly continues the countdown to save the humans. ![]() Uninformed about the true purpose of the operation, HAL suggests to Chandra to stop the launch and remain to study Jupiter's conversion. ![]() Since neither ship could reach Earth with an early departure, they work together using the Discovery as a booster rocket for the Leonov, though it will mean the destruction of the Discovery and HAL's destruction. This convinces the two crews that they must leave soon. The Monoliths begin shrinking Jupiter's volume, increasing the planet's density, and modifying its chemical composition. The spot is actually a vast group of Monoliths that are exponentially multiplying. The Monolith then suddenly disappears, and a growing black spot appears on Jupiter itself. Stunned by Bowman's appearance, Floyd returns to the Leonov to confer with Captain Tanya Kirbuk, who remains skeptical. Both crews plan to leave Jupiter separately when a launch window opens in several weeks' time, but Bowman appears to Floyd and says it is paramount that everyone leave within two days. Although the order bears his signature, Floyd angrily denies any knowledge of the NSC's actions.īack on Earth, when tension between the United States and the Soviet Union escalates to war, the Americans are ordered to leave the Leonov and move to the Discovery, with communication with each other forbidden except in an emergency. Chandra discovers the reason for HAL's malfunction: The National Security Council had ordered HAL to conceal from the Discovery's crew the fact that the mission was about the Monolith this conflicted with HAL's basic programming of open, accurate processing of information, causing him to suffer the computer equivalent of a paranoid mental breakdown. On Earth, David Bowman, now an incorporeal being that exists inside the Monolith, appears on his wife's television screen to tell her goodbye, and then visits his terminally ill mother just before she dies.Īboard the Discovery, Dr. Cosmonaut Max Brailovsky travels to the monolith in an EVA pod, at which point the Monolith briefly opens with a burst of energy, sending Max's pod spinning off into space. Also nearby is the giant alien monolith that the Discovery was originally sent to investigate. Curnow reactivates the ship and Chandra restarts HAL, who had been deactivated by Bowman before he disappeared. The Soviets believe the burst was simply electrostatic build-up, but Floyd suspects it was a warning to stay away from Europa.Īfter surviving a dangerous braking maneuver around Jupiter's upper atmosphere, the Leonov crew find the abandoned Discovery floating in space. They send an unmanned probe down to Europa to investigate the unusual readings, but just as it finds the source, a mysterious energy burst destroys the probe and its data. Upon arriving at Jupiter, the crew detect signs of life on Jupiter's seemingly barren moon Europa. Floyd, along with Discovery designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr. The US government agrees to a joint mission when it is determined that Discovery will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before Discovery Two is ready. While an international dispute causes tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery the Soviet spacecraft Leonov will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, but the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster. ![]() Heywood Floyd resigned his position as head of the National Council of Astronautics. It is nine years after the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman blamed for the fiasco, Dr. Meanwhile David Bowman, now reborn as an Energy Being, is helping the extraterrestrials who created the Monoliths with scouting Jupiter and its moons for primitive lifeforms, hopefully finding one that has potential to turn sentient. Nine years after the Discovery's travel to Jupiter, a joint Soviet-American crew is heading for the mighty gas-planet to find out what happened to the Discovery and its crew. ![]()
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