Three Laws of Robotics stated explicitly. Several years later Asimov's friend Randall Garrett attributed the Laws to a symbiotic partnership between the two men – a suggestion that Asimov adopted enthusiastically. According to his autobiographical writings, Asimov included the First Law's "inaction" clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem "The Latest Decalogue" (), which includes the satirical lines "Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive". Although Asimov pins the creation of the Three Laws on one particular date, their appearance in his literature happened over a period. He wrote two robot stories with no explicit mention of the
Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) of the G.I. Joe sub-team, the Star Brigade, which includes Space Shot, Roadblock and Payload. Teaming with the Oktober Guard, they destroy an asteroid that was headed for Earth. Sci-Fi makes an appearance in issue 25 of the Devil's Due G.I. Joe series. He is part of a demolitions team sent in to destroy EMP generators on Cobra Island. Led by the Joe Mercer, the team does so, but not without the deaths of Flash, Mainframe and the rookie Joe member, 'Hacker'. Jinx, another member of the team, survives. Sci-Fi is later seen fighting Cobra operatives in Peru. In the