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"She is Doyle. She protects me. She makes sure I don't end up on some hellhole of a rock."
―Seamus Harper[src]
Doyle
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Doyle
Series: Andromeda
Gender: Female
Notability: Supporting character
Occupation: Artificial intelligence; avatar
Race: Robot
Location: Seefra-7
Andromeda Ascendant
Relatives: Rommie (predecessor)
Status: Alive
First: "Phear Phactor Phenom"
Final: "The Heart of the Journey (Part 2)"
Actor: Brandy Ledford

Doyle was a supporting character featured in the science fiction television series Andromeda. Played by actress Brandy Ledford, she first appeared the third episode of season five titled "Phear Phactor Phenom". She appeared in a total of twenty episodes throughout the remainder of the series. Her final appearance was in the series finale, "The Heart of the Journey (Part 2)". The character of Doyle was an android created by Andromeda 's chief engineer Seamus Harper. She also served as the A.I. for the ship, replacing their standard avatar Rommie, who had been temporarily inactive.

Biography

Doyle is a gynoid created by Seamus Harper. When Seamus Harper was stranded on Seefra with the malfunctioning remains of Rommie, he built Doyle to house the remaining core fragments of Rommie's AI, and to act as his bodyguard and friend.

Doyle's most distinguishing feature was her desire to be human, in sharp contrast to Rommie's whole-hearted embracing of her mechanic nature.

For three years Harper led Doyle to believe that she was human; she discovered her artificial nature and her complicated relation to Rommie at the same time, when the psychotic AI revolutionary Argent told her in a bid to win her assistance.

Eventually, Doyle came to accept her role as the Andromeda Ascendant avatar and forgave Harper for his deception. When Rommie was rebuilt and reasserted her role as the ship's avatar, the two androids had a very fractious relationship, each trying to outperform the other. By the time the season ended, they managed to reach a happy medium, and Doyle stuck around for the final battle against the Abyss for Harper's sake.

Seamus took a number of liberties with Doyle's design, including placing an access panel to her systems in an undisclosed sensitive area below her lower back. He also programmed her to experience a physical thrill whenever these controls were operated, as happened when Dylan increased the thermal output of her body in order to ignite volatile minerals during an escape attempt.

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The World of Andromeda

Andromeda miscellaneous

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