#EDIT: Pin-Lee’s surname comes from Dragon! Shoutout to Dragon

[specialagentartemis]

Fanart?  Fan-tableaux?  The door to my lab cosplaying as the door to a Preservation Alliance auditorium?

POV: You are a Preservation Alliance resident coming to the quarterly planetary town hall after Dr. Mensah's return to ask your elected officials about some normal infrastructural issue or something and you see this.

(Comments added by Murderbot, Ratthi, Pin-Lee, and Gurathin, respectively.)

Full text:

Notice on today's Open Forum Meeting: The Steering Committee Councilors will no longer be taking questions about SecUnits. If you came with a question about SecUnits, please refer to the FAQ below.

Is the Preservation Alliance now contracting, building, or using SecUnits? No. There is one (1) SecUnit who lives on Preservation Station and it is a refugee pursuing full citizenship. Is it reporting back to a company? No. Does it want to kill all humans? No. Does it have a guardian like bots do? Yes. Is the guardian controlling it? No.  It is an autonomous person just like you. Do I need to treat it with the full respect and rights granted to any citizen of the Preservation Alliance? Yes. Even if— Yes. Will the Preservation Alliance be getting more SecUnits in the future? The Preservation Alliance maintains its stance that the creation and use of constructs for labor is wrong and antithetical to our values.  However, if other SecUnits in the future choose to request asylum or citizenship in the Preservation Alliance, we will respect their rights as refugees or immigrants equally as we have in the past for humans and bots.

Any questions not addressed here should be directed to Councilmember Halima Shewaye at her professional feed message address.  Please do not ask your question in the open forum to allow others to have their non-SecUnit-related concerns heard."

Next to "Does it want to kill all humans?" is written in red marker, "If you keep bothering Dr. Mensah about this I might decide I do actually."  This is scribbled out in black pen, and beneath it in a different handwriting reads, "IT'S JOKING."

Further down, at the bottom of the paper, in dark green ink, is written, “For information about SecUnit's refugee status, contact Qian Pin-Lee at [email protected]."  On a post-it note next to it, in thin sharp handwriting, is an arrow and the words "I wouldn't".

#Murderbot #The Murderbot Diaries #Dr. Mensah is So Tired #this was such a fun time to try doing four different in-character handwritings though #and shoutout to Steel Chimera for Pin-Lee's hc surname; and to Ceej and Steel Chimera for some of the language and for playing along #anyone who emails Pin-Lee for additional info is going to get a Surprise. She is not gonna be nice :') #EDIT: Pin-Lee’s surname comes from Dragon! Shoutout to Dragon