Preferences might vary culturally, although I suppose basic needs might not.

I included the geographic regions where each style was most prominent. I can also add scans of additional libraries if you have a region of the world you believe it would be helpful to acquire such from.

I'll let you know.

Sapphire stays silent for a time, focusing on her various other tasks. In one corner of the hexagon a copy of Mirelótë's house begins to take shape. Underground a small lizard explores a habitat. On distant Earth more humans are steadily being added to Sapphire's collection of scans.

Mirelótë reads a lot. And sings.

Based on my tests with other species of animals from their planet it seems fairly likely that I'll be able to recreate humans from scans without difficulty. Do you have some sense for how we might pre-select a human who would be comfortable with that? You seem to be reading their books faster than I am.

Will their memories be intact, have you tried trained animals?

I'm not sure precisely how to determine what trained animals are trained to do or train them myself. I've been comparing the accuracy of my reconstruction to the original scan and I've reached 0.01% variance. Perhaps more tests are in order though.

I've found references to dogs that do a lot of things. If you can help me figure out how to pronounce these words I could try telling a dog from the correct region which was trained in basic dog tasks to do them.

I could reconstruct one of their computers, they do seem capable of recording video files. The library seemed to contain some digital media. I believe that with enough experimentation I could show you such a video, though I'm unsure how to select one which is appropriate. I'll compile a list of works stored in the library and begin work to determine how to utilize one of their computers for playback or perhaps how to emulate one of their computers depending on how difficult they are to manufacture.

Video would be perfect, as long as it's from a region with a dominant enough language that local dogs will be trained therein.

About fifteen minutes later: I believe that I've correctly determined how to render their video and audio files based on explanations written in several books. Further, it appears that some such videos are annotated with text that mirrors the spoken words. I've added a listing of the works available and which the computer has transcribed so far to your interface.

Thank you!

She looks for videos with dogs.

There is a movie titled Air Bud with a dog prominently featured on the cover.

Sure, she can start with Air Bud.

The movie includes many commands for dogs. The plot seems to be about a dog learning to play a sport called basketball.

Since everyone is very impressed with the dog playing basketball and it is explicitly not customary she will assume that part is not customary. She learns to pronounce English phonemes. The spelling is appalling but not wholly unpredictable.

In the meantime a collection of dogs takes form in a laboratory underneath the hexagon. I have recreated several dogs which seem likely to be trained. I'm keeping them in stasis for the moment.

Can they be straightforwardly returned to stasis after I've tried telling them to sit?

Of course. I also have robots available to contain them should any of them prove aggressive. 

Thank you.

She looks for supplementary dog videos.

There are a handful of titles which include the phrase 'dog training' specifically.

That's useful. She watches some and then requests a dog.

I built a teleporter just outside, you can take that down to the lab where I've been doing my animal experiments. Moving objects while they're in stasis is non-trivial.

Okay.

She takes the teleporter down.