Talk:N7: Hahne-Kedar Facility

Planet where assignment takes place is named Capek after the writer who invented the word "robot". Text below is taken from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Čapek

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Etymology of robot

The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *orbh-. Robot is cognate with the German word Arbeiter (worker).

While it is frequently thought that Karel Čapek was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor.[3] In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he also explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, seeing it as too artificial, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti" (robots in English).

On the Wikipedia is also this: In the video game Mass Effect 2, one mission requires the player to shut down a factory which produces defective robots on a planet called Capek. (same wiki page as the one mentioned before)