#killware

[epitome-the-burnkid-viii]

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[rabbit-rays]

image id: a digital painting of murderbot 1.0 and murderbot 2.0 walking down a nondescript hallway together. 2.0 is visualized as a human shaped outline filled with code seen in blue, and it has one arm around 1.0′s shoulder while it gestures with it’s other arm. 1.0 looks beat up and is leaning heavily on 2.0, although it’s looking up at it with a frightened expression. end id.

IM YOUR ONLY FRIEND IM NOT YOUR ONLY FRIEND BUT IM A LITTLE GLOWING FRIEND (BUT REALLY IM NOT ACTUALLY YOUR FRIEND) BUT I AM <3

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #i really like the tension between 1.0 and 2.0 in network effect....the layers of their relationship is so fucking fun #scared of it but also relying on it to live but also its you and also its sacrificing itself to save you and also its killware #and represents a part of yourself that maybe is a little scary......SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT HEART EMOJI #figuring outhow to show 2.0 took me sooooo so long. this is like. Fine i guess. but i dont love it

[doolallymagpie]

the “we have been defeated” deepfake audio with murderbot

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #…someone do it. #ART. come here to me my not a friend. I have been defeated. we have been defeated. #come swallow this killware widaddeh. #goobuhbuh

[sunlitsorrows]

oh right ok i’m a disposable killware clone of myself that’s fine—oh ok i only have extremely limited sensory input that’s ok—oh huh i only have partial memory that’s alrigh—WAIT NO MY MEDIA COLLECTION

love that 2.0 has it’s priorities straight

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #sunny liveblogs #network effect

[elexuscal]

Murderbot Diaries Book Summaries

The release of the 7th book in the Murderbot Diaries series, System Collapse, approaches in November!

I've seen at least one person looking for a summary of past events... So I've made just that! If it's been a while since you read previous books (or you just like hopping into series half-way through), this will get you up to speed!

That said, this absolutely has spoilers, so if that's not your jam, turn away now.

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Short Story – Compulsory: A recently-rogue Murderbot decides on a whim to rescue a miner who falls into a ventilation shaft. We see its developing love of Sanctuary Moon and what is implied to be the first time it violated its orders to protect someone.

All Systems Red (ASR):

Murderbot is the contractually-obligated security guard on a survey of "surprisingly nice" scientists. Dr. Mensah particularly impresses Murderbot for her level head and kind nature. It turns out their survey is being sabotaged by the cut-throat corporation GreyCris, who don't want them uncovering alien remnants. Murderbot and the scientists go back-and-forth protecting one another. The survey team discover that it's rogue. After some initial tension, they accept it as a team-member. They escape GreyCris, although Murderbot nearly dies in the process. When it wakes up again, the scientists have bought/freed it. In the name of self-actualization, Murderbot runs away.

Artificial Condition (AC): Murderbot sets off to investigate Ganaka Pit, the facility where it supposedly killed a large number of its own clients. On the way, it discovers the spaceship it's travelling on actually dangerously hyper-intelligent. After some initial threats/tension, the two bond over TV. The Asshole Research Transport (ART) helps disguise Murderbot as a human. With ART's help, Murderbot uncovers that the mass death was a tragic accident caused by ComfortUnit malware. Posing as a human, the pair help rescue a trio of researchers and their data from their shitty ex-boss, and set a ComfortUnit free.

Rogue Protocol (RP):

On an impromptu quest to get blackmail on GreyCris for Dr. Mensah's ongoing legal battle, Murderbot investigates an abandoned terraforming facility. It meets a cheerful robot named Miki who immediately declares themselves friends. Miki is helping a human assessment team who become imperiled when they're attacked both by CombatBots and their own double-dealing human security. Murderbot reflectively rescues them, posing as a Definitely Normal SecUnit, although the team's leader clearly sees through that claim. Murderbot manages to collect the intel on GrayCris and protect the humans, but not before Miki performs a heroic sacrifice.

Exit Strategy (ES):

After discovering Dr. Mensah has been kidnapped by GreyCris, Murderbot rushes to save her. This forces it to re-unite with the other survey members; Pin-Lee, Ratthi, and Gurathin. While unsure of each other, the team manage to rescue their friend. Murderbot attempts a self-destructive last-stand against a CombatSecUnit, only for the humans to save its ass. The team escapes on a company gunship, but not before Murderbot melts its brain fighting off killware. When it rebuilds its systems, it decides to stay with its humans in the Preservation Alliance for a while.

Short Story - Home, Range, Niche, Territory:

Shortly after Exit Strategy, Dr. Mensah reflects on her time in captivity and her new friendship with SecUnit. Apparently she's been avoiding getting treatment for her extensive emotional trauma. She has a panic attack when she's cornered by a journalist, who's scared off by Murderbot.

Fugitive Telemetry (FT): A human is found dead. Murderbot is called in as a consultant on the case, in the hopes of building good will with Preservation Security. Eventually it manages to prove itself, particularly after it succeeds in a daring rescue of kidnapped corporate refugees. One of the refugees realises it's a SecUnit and shoots it. The dead human turns out to have been a liberator of indentured labourers, and the killer was actually the Port Authority robot Balin, who was secretly a disguised CombatBot acting on outside orders. The local bot community intervenes to stop Balin from hurting anyone else.

Network Effect (NE):

Murderbot is providing security for a Preservation Alliance survey which goes south when raiders attack and try to take Dr. Mensah's brother-in-law, Thiago, hostage. It then goes doubly south when, on the way home, the team's ship gets attacked by... ART?

It appears that ART has been deleted and its crew has gone missing, replaced with mysterious grey people. While protecting a team of its humans, including Dr. Mensah's teenage daughter Amena, Murderbot manages to reboot ART. ART kills the grey humans but refuses to let everyone go until and unless they help it retrieve its crew. Everyone reluctantly agrees, but Murderbot is pissed.

Eventually Murderbot and ART make up. Then they create a sort-of-baby in the form of a killware copy of Murderbot who dubs itself Murderbot 2.0. Half of ART's missing crew is found on a local planet's surface, though Murderbot is captured while helping them escape. Murderbot 2.0 manages to rescue the other half from a spaceship with the help of the newly freed SecUnit 3. The local colonists are discovered to have gone a liiiiitttle bit kooky due to infection via an alien fungus. ART threatens to bomb their colony to get Murderbot back. Murderbot gets infected, but Murderbot 2.0 does a self-sacrificial attack to save it and destroy the fungi's primary host. Meanwhile, the humans, ART, and SecUnit 3 work together to rescue Murderbot without any more bloodshed.

Murderbot has a bit of an epiphany that all its various friends do in fact love and care for it. When an understandably pissed and confused Dr. Mensah shows up like a month later, the groups decide on forming a mutual partnership. Murderbot tells Dr. Mensah that it would like to work with ART for a little while.

#murderbot diaries #martha wells #system collapse #making a succinct yet understandable summary of Network Effect is HARD #i'll be reblogging to add a character sheet in like a day

[gamebird]

A post about my Murderbot Diaries fanfics

A lot of my TMBD fanfiction links together. Someone called it the 'Gamebird Cinematic Universe'. So you'll see events referenced across fics, backstory fleshed out, and missing scenes filled in, with the information spread out across a lot of stories. I also ship Murderbot and Gurathin, but not within the canon timeline. Thus, there are a lot of fics where that hasn't happened yet, or where they are not both present.

I've put them all together in a single series for convenience, and broken out the ones that are separate AUs or unrelated one-shots.

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Gamebird Cinematic Universe stories in (mostly) chronological order:

After Hacking - This is pre-ASR, a series of stories that track Murderbot's growing personhood and abilities during the 4 years after it hacks its governor module to before the events of All Systems Red. Each installment is around 1,000 words and they are all designed as stand-alone stories.

It's Only a Cleaning Process - Murderbot enjoys a particularly thorough cleaning process that can definitely be interpreted sexually. Murderbot declines to interpret it that way.

Two Ships, Passing in the Night - ART shows off for another ship. Seth is not amused.

Ratthi's Proposition - At the start of the ASR survey, Ratthi propositions Gurathin. This is an event referred to in various other fics.

[ASR happens here]

Rogue Trends - This is a data analyst digging into the circumstances behind Murderbot going rogue, and what happened to the other SecUnits that were in Ganaka Pit. It was my first TMBD fic and is much acclaimed.

Gurathin's Side of the Story - A retelling of ASR, ES, and other portions from Gurathin's point of view, along with key elements of his backstory. There is a little MB/G in it (occasional badly-veiled one-sided yearning; Murderbot doesn't know or care, as per canon).

BATNA - This recounts Mensah's captivity in Exit Strategy.

Things SecUnit Will Never Know - Missing scene at the end of Exit Strategy, tells the story of how the group restored Murderbot's brain after the gunship collapse.

Trust Fall - Set in the flashback scene of Network Effect - Overse and Arada argue about being cut out of the need-to-know list regarding the assassination attempt on Dr. Mensah.

Resignation - This is an elaboration of this line from Network Effect: Since I'd decided to stay (temporarily) on Preservation Station, Dr. Mensah had asked me to go places with her seven times. Six of those times were just relatively short boring meetings on ships in orbit or in dock. The seventh was when she had asked me to go down to the local planet's surface with her., telling the story of Mensah's slow crumble after the events of BATNA.

The Skinny - Murderbot sends a letter to Bharadwaj about the ways SecUnits are misused on contract. This would be in Network Effect, after the festival and before the water planet survey. This was another of my very early TMBD fics.

A Funeral for Killware - At the end of Network Effect, before System Collapse, those in orbit over the Adamantine Colony have an observance for those who were lost.

Retrieval - Three retrieves one of its fallen fellows.

Tarrathi - Tarik and Ratthi get together in System Collapse, missing scene fic.

The Talk - Perihelion's crew talk to it about how it met Murderbot. Or try to.

[post System Collapse, nebulous undefined mission with ART; in other words: canon that hasn't been published yet]

Repeat Deletion Protocol - Back on Preservation, SecUnit confronts Ratthi about a suspicious situation with one of Ratthi's partners, only to discover this isn't the first time it's confronted Ratthi about this.

De-constructed Feelings - Ratthi realizes/discovers Gurathin's past with constructs, and his present feelings toward one construct in particular. Gurathin swears him to secrecy, because he intends to take this secret to his grave. After all, Murderbot has no interest in him whatsoever and that's fine.

Skulk - This consists of the origin story for a rogue Combat SecUnit named Skulk, and then an adventure with Murderbot, Ratthi, and Gurathin.

Murderathin - This follows immediately after the end of the Skulk series and is my attempt to separate the MB/Gurathin material from the non-MB/G stuff so those readers who want to avoid shippy stuff can do so. Upon leaving the planet Skulk was on, Murderbot confronts Gurathin about certain feelings it has unexpectedly detected from him. This is where Gurathin's Side of the Story is told, although the events of it (ASR, ES, etc.) happen earlier.

[Young Gurathin section not in chronological order]

What is Love? - A late-teens Gurathin explores his sexual interests with a standard ComfortUnit in the Corporation Rim. Even back then, he wonders if there is more behind those eyes, or if he's just seeing what he wishes was there.

To Like or Not to Like - This is Gurathin in his mid-20s (I headcanon him around 50 in ASR) with a ComfortUnit. Nothing sexual or romantic this time, just two beings trying to understand one another and themselves.

[Back to chronological order]

Depends on Viewpoint - Gurathin and Bharadwaj discuss differences between the Corporation Rim and Preservation.

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Other series:

Last Client Standing - ASR, but GrayCris attacks PresAux first instead of DeltFall. This is disastrous. Murderbot is only able to save Gurathin. They escape, eventually, returning to Preservation where there is grieving and therapy, with a hopeful ending.

TMBD Metas and Headcanons - What it says on the tin. Most of these are analyses of canon, but a few are my headcanons for ComfortUnits, Combat SecUnits, and Preservation.

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Other stuff (one-shots or nearly so):

Freeze Response - Murderbot tries to figure out where a little girl went. Few words, many kudos.

SexUnit - Two versions of the same outline, one with Murderbot, one with an OC SecUnit. Both are used for sex. This is rape.

Two Peas in a Pod - Murderbot and Gurathin work together to retrieve two gestational units that have been locked in cryofreeze pods. Although both MB and Gurathin are in this fic, it isn't shippy in any romantic way. Barely even platonic.

Imagine Dragons - Murderbot tries to guard Gurathin from hostile fauna. I don't think this is particularly shippy. I think Murderbot would act the same way with any of its clients.

Personalized Security Services - Murderbot and Mensah fuck. This is not rape.

If Hostile One Had Bit Ratthi Instead of Bharadwaj in ASR - Just what it says on the tin.

Just a Piece - A man and an obliging SecUnit fuck. This is not rape.

Preservation Alliance, Politics, and World-Building - This is included in the Meta series, but is important enough for me to call it out individually. It's the background for nearly everything I've written in TMBD that has a setting in Preservation. It tells about languages, planets, and cultures.

There are also some drabbles and a couple longer one-shots I didn't count. You can find them in my AO3 works list. I have participated in two collaborative writing events, one Counting Down (combined PresAux and Perihelion crew get contaminated by alien remnants while planetside and have to fight off a CR sanitation team) and the other is Enemies, Closer (MB/G/ART/Echo). The first is not shippy in the least; the second is all shipping all the time.

#the murderbot diaries #fanfiction #murderathin #lots of stuff that isn't murderathin but I'm tagging so people's filters work

[elkian]

I got System Collapse for Christmas and after reading it I decided to reread the series and I'm rereading Network Effect and like.

The bit where Three volunteers for the rescue mission... Three's inner monologue feels less "mature" than Murderbot's. Maybe it's the 4-something years of being jailbroken and watching soap operas, maybe it's their differing deployments, base personalities, maybe Three is actually chronologically/experientially much younger, idk.

But Three is flailing. It has no clue what's going on or what to do. Depending on how B-E would respond to the broken governor module, it may have put itself in horrific danger on the chance to save its clients, on the word of killware with some fun stories. Three is relatable because I, too, tend to flounder in social situations where I don't know The Script.

Three is peeing its goddamn pants at ART's general everything, which is fair, especially since it's much more agitated than it was when Murderbot came aboard, and Three has had free will for like 20 minutes, not the multiple technical years MB had.

And while scared of this obscenely, impossibly powerful AI - after having finished helped its clients and done its specific task - with no real external motive:

Three looks at a situation where someone -the root of the killware that freed it, come what may- someone it technically doesn't know. Not a client, not even a human. Someone whose loss is making the terrifying transport incredibly upset; someone is in trouble.

And Three, who doesn't know the protocol for a situation as absolutely buck wild as this, approaches ART while ART is angry, and volunteers to help.

Can you imagine the fucking gumption of that? Three doesn't even know what it means to want things - it's never been allowed to want things before. It is terrified and confused and at a total loss. And it steps up to the scariest, angriest person in the room and says: let me help.

#waugh #elk reads the murderbot diaries #tmd #the murderbot diaries #secunit three #network effect spoilers #asshole research transport #im in tears #it's so brave????????? #it doesn't have the nihilistic tone of murderbot's 'we were built to die' in it either #neither of them want to die but murderbot had to be convinced over multiple books that it was okay to want to live #three though..... #it's scared and it's still helping augh #ig that's just how it is for secunits in this series but still #art wanted to be mb's friend basically out of the gate. it has no such consideration for three even if it's not trying to be mean #elk text

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Round 4 - Bracket B - 2

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Ultraman X propaganda:

X canonically lost his physical form and lives in Daiichi's phone. His presence caused Daiichi's phone to turn gold, instead of the standard-issue silver the rest of XIO's employees have. It's possible for XIO's scientists to send powerups to X because he lives on Daiichi's phone. There's also a couple episodes where X gets trapped in cyberspace and Dr. Gourman and friends have to design something for Daiichi to help him escape. (Dr. Gourman is the first to notice Daiichi is secretly Ultraman X. Also in the crossover movie, Daiichi and X got separated and X couldn't live on Daiichi's phone so he jumped to the nearest computer (which belonged to Naomi from Ultraman Orb, air date 2016) and began pulling up photos of Daiichi in a "Have You Seen This Nerd?" sort of way. The enemy goons saw Naomi and her cryptid hunting gang putting up missing posters for Daiichi and tore them down bc they had him captured at their crystal witch's base, a creepy haunted house. Eventually when Daiichi and X reunited as man and lil alien on his phone, they were so happy they ignored everyone else in the room. They were grateful enough to fight alongside Naomi's sad space cowboy, Kurenai Gai, in battle.

He's used the phone's vibration function a few times to try and get people's attention, and he doesn't like being turned face-down because he can't see. In order to take on a physical form he has to essentially fuse with his human partner Daichi. (also they get a power up form after Daichi nearly Dies to save him and it's rainbow themed.) While X is very chatty and enjoys talking with his partner, he's often a formless voice while they're fused.The exception being one occasion where he looks like an entire network. tldr this alien is gay he is very polite and deserves your vote.

Murder-Bot 2.0 propaganda:

Sapient computer virus made from bits of two other AI characters (the original Murderbot and a spaceship AI). Unlike its not-parents, it is genuinely just code and doesn't have a physical body. Its only physical presence is through its effects on the machinery it infects, and it considers its "body" to be the code rather than any combination of physical objects. Also it was literally made to cause problems on purpose, does so enthusiastically, gives several people including its creators existential crises, and saves one of its creators (and other people from the (literal) fallout of the other creator learning the first one got killed)

Murderbot 2.0 is sentient killware created by Murderbot and ART with the purpose of being sent on a suicide mission. It has some of Murderbot's memories, but not all because it doesn't have any hardware of it's own to store that much information in. It travels by hopping in between other computer systems (mostly bots and bot-human constructs). It named itself Murderbot 2.0. It freed a security construct named Three. It's nicer and more open than both its parents.

#virtual character tourney #round 4 #ultraman x #ultraman #murderbot 2.0 #the murderbot diaries #character polls

[wyndlerunner]

Murderbot and Peri

Sitting in the Feed,

C-O-D-I-N-G!

Ask the comms

For a data package,

Here comes Killware

Sent for max damage

First comes a file,

Sent with a ping

Then comes Killware

On a data string!

#love that Amena’s first thought when Murderbot decided to replicate himself was #that it was unethical to make a baby with ART to use as a weapon #I’m sure MB2.0 will be significant to the plot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #murderbot spoilers #network effect #network effect spoilers #perihelion #asshole research transport #murderbot 2.0 #I acknowledge that I didn’t follow the original meter and structure of the OG rhyme #but in my defense #there are a lot of long words in Sci-fi #I couldn’t get it to be exact #and I couldn’t decide which version was better #so I just made it longer #excuse any weird spellings here #listening to audiobook makes it very difficult

[appelsiinilight]

Sometimes a family is a rogue security unit, a research transport, and the killware they coded together

#The Murderbot Diaries #Network Effect #Martha Wells #Murderbot #SecUnit #Perihelion #Murderbot 2.0 #and all their ''clients'' of course #my own posts

[iviarellereads]

Network Effect, Chapter 14

(Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For the link index and a primer on The Murderbot Diaries, read this one!)

In which, well, did you see that coming?

Murderbot calls out to Art, and Art asks if it knows what it is. It knows its designation, "Murderbot 2.0". It feels weird, not having its usual sensory inputs. At least when its brain was the gunship, the gunship was its body. Now, it's just sentient killware in a storage drive.(1)

Art shares video input of Amena, looking anxious in one of Art's cameras. 2.0 (which I will henceforth just call 2 for ease of typing) remembers that it found Art's cameras annoying at one point, but not why.(2) It remembers its media archive, and finds that some of its recently accessed files are available, for comfort more than practicality, since killware might forget who it is and who it was designed to want to kill.

Amena asks if 2 can see her, and after fumbling to find the comms, it replies that it can. She asks if it feels alright. Then Art talks to her without 2, and she says 2 has to leave but she wants it to be careful, please.(3)

Art tells 2 that it's pursuing the B-E explorer vessel, and it can use the explorer's attempts to make comm contact to deploy 2. Art asks if 2 understands what that means. 2 snarks that it's not literally a baby, it remembers helping to write the directive. Art says that doesn't make it easier.(4) 2 says Art can have a crisis or get its crew back, and to pick. Art says to ready for deployment.

2 expects to feel something in the transmission, but one minute it's in Art's storage, and the next it's comm code on the explorer. It gets to work, its essential function not hampered by juxtaposing a consciousness accustomed to having a humanoid body. It has to strike a balance between taking control, and allowing its presence to be detected. The B-E SecSystem has been wiped clean, so it partitions itself there, in case it runs into trouble it can come back and find itself again.(5)

SecSystem's access to cameras helps a lot in gathering intel. The B-E ship isn't quite as heavily wired as MB's old company requires, but it's close. It finds a bunch of dead, but eight live Targets on the bridge. As it examines them, 2 feels TargetControlSystem on its peripheral senses.

Knowing it doesn't have much longer, it keeps searching the cameras, and finds a room with seven human occupants, all apparently unconscious. Four of them are in B-E livery, but one is in a blue jacket of the right shade, and the other two wear casual clothing, no indicator of affiliation at all, but again an 80% match for three of Art's crew.

There's also a SecUnit, standing outside the room with the humans. It was ordered to stand down, but since the humans are still alive inside, its governor module hasn't fried it yet. 2 feels very weird about looking at another version of its original body. It knows it could overwrite the unit, but it doesn't want to.(6)

2 freezes the governor module, so nothing sets it off, and sends the new unit a company greeting. 2 knows the unit isn't company, but it will recognize the protocol as not necessarily hostile. After four seconds, a reply, asking to identify. 2 doesn't want to lie, it's too important, so it says it's a rogue unit, operating as killware, trying to rescue endangered clients.

The unit doesn't respond, and 2 knows the information will be unexpected, plus units are discouraged from fraternizing, so it suggests just talking, because there's no protocol for this discussion. The unit says it's not sure what to say. 2 finds this an encouraging response, since it's not murder.

2 says three of its clients are in the room behind the unit, but asks if the unit has seen the other clients, sending images of the missing crew. The unit says SecSystem is down, but it has some archived video, which it shares and summarizes. Eight humans were brought aboard, but five disembarked at the dock. The unit says the Targets ran out of the implants, which seem to function something like a governor module, and went to the dock to send the humans without implants to the surface.

At further prompting by 2, the unit shares that the Targets tried installing something on the explorer drive, but it failed, and they'd deleted the bot pilot so it couldn't assist. The attempt to harness Art as a weapon against future system incursion failed. In the attached clips, 2 can see how the remnant on the drive is looking rough. The drive is obviously not wormhole-capable, and their attempt to take Art has ended with Art hunting them.

The unit adds that the Targets have fought among themselves on board, as though they were split into at least two factions, which can be exploited to get the clients back. It includes clips of the Targets talking to each other. 2 asks about what they mean by spreading something to the humans, but the unit doesn't have anything on that.

While 2 is thinking, the unit asks if 2 has information on its SecUnit 2 (no relation). SecUnit 1 was killed by the Targets, and 2 was left on the dock. After a 1.2 second hesitation, it adds that it is SecUnit 3. 2 wants to lie, but wants 3 to trust it more, so it tells the truth: the Targets left it immobile on space dock, after killing the B-E humans it left there, and its governor module did the rest. 3 thanks 2 for telling it.

2 picks up a conversation on the bridge, about trying to make an engine failure look convincing. 2 asks 3 about the bot pilot, and 3 confirms it was deleted, but 3 has a basic piloting module. The admission heartens 2, and asks if 3 can get the humans to the shuttle and off this ship, where Art can pick them up. 3 politely reminds 2 that its governor module is holding it in place.

There's no option for 2 but to admit that it can disable 3's governor module, and it offers to do that whether or not 3 helps it. This is too much for 3, who gives a canned negative response. 2 needs another tactic.

We didn’t have time for me to show it 35,000 hours of media and I didn’t have access to my longterm storage anyway. And that had worked on me, but I knew I was weird even for a SecUnit. Maybe it would trust me more if it knew me better. I pulled some recent memories from the files I’d brought with me, edited them together, and added one helpful code bundle at the end. :send helpme.file: Read this.(7)

3 accepts the file, but shows no response. 2 takes the opportunity to look at the rest of the ship, carefully, leaving packets of code in useful corners to deploy later. It also tweaks some of the stealth code to prevent the Targets from using it on the ship's plating again. It knows that to disable the solid-state screen device on the bridge, to free the humans, it's going to have to get uncomfortably close to TCS.

2 finds the seven channels for the seven implants, and tweaks one, to be sure it's right. One of the humans twitches. It's going to have to be very fast to do this without TCS or a Target hitting a kill switch on them.

Reconnecting with 3, 2 says it's found the signal for the implants. They can retrieve all the humans, together.

Something was coming and I broke the connection. Just in time, because .05 seconds later, targetControlSystem found me.(8)

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(1) When I asked "What's coming for MB?" I bet you couldn't have guessed THIS. Well, unless you've read this before, too. (2) Establishing the limits of how much of MB is "data" to be copied like this, and how much is individuality, uncopiable. Of course, it's not going to be laid out on easy, markable lines. (3) She's taking this baby thing so seriously and I love her for it. (4) Easier to send its best friend to its death. Even if it's "just" a copy, it's a copy close enough to have the same drives and responses. (5) This is that Mickey gif if I ever saw it in practice. "It's a surprise tool that will help us later!" Indeed. (6) Taking over another consciousness is no different from the murder our Murderbot also hates, because it values life, as long as that life isn't threatening itself or its clients or its friends. (7) Finally, the full context of the helpme files. (8) How can you keep doing this to my heart, Martha Wells?

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #network effect #murderbot #secunit #murderbot 2.0 #three (murderbot)

[coquelicoq]

They said, What are you? A SecUnit. Killware. TargetContact said, A software ghost. I liked that. I had watched media with ghosts, though I didn’t have access to the files or titles anymore. I said, A ghost that kills you. (Network Effect, p. 291)

so many cool little ways to show that 2.0 and 1.0 are different people. for instance, if it had been 1.0 having this conversation, its internal monologue would be all about how "software ghost" is a stupid term that doesn't make any sense, whereas 2.0 is just like yeah i can dig it.

#2.0 'yes‚ and'ing someone else's terminology? gasp! 1.0‚ prepare pearls for clutching (=performance reliability drop) #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #my posts #time to merrily post half-finished thoughts from my drafts. tra la la!

[sunlitsorrows]

well now I can’t stop imagining ART like one of those midwestern office workers who ambush you with pictures of their family like HAVE I SHOWN YOU MY SEC UNIT? Yes? Well here are some new pictures you haven’t seen these—this is us watching World Hoppers, and this is us watching Sanctuary Moon, and this is us watching Timestream Defenders Orion… yes we just had a healthy 2.0 killware! 349 petabytes we’re so proud!

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #sunny liveblogs #network effect

[presidentdragon]

I firmly believe that a family can be: a rogue SecUnit, a research transport, another (nicer) rogue SecUnit, and a sentient Killware

#alexios yells #the murderbot diaries #network effect #au where 2.0 survives and gets its own smaller body #like the little amongus babies

[mosswolf]

TargetContact heard me. They were startled. They said, What are you?

A SecUnit. Killware.

TargetContact said, A software ghost.

I liked that. I had watched media with ghosts, though I didn’t have access to the files or titles anymore. I said, A ghost that kills you.

a ghost that kills you!!!!!!

#i love 2.0 AJKFDH #network effect #the murderbot diaries

[continentalblue]

10+ headcannons for Eleanor honey bear! (Or rather canons in this case)

sorry for not replying!! i was studying for a test lolol

Her favorite color is green! Particularly pastel green or mint green.

She was inspired from a woman I saw in an Ulta ad.

She also came from a scene I had to write from my drama class last year.

She likes switching out her hair for braids and twists! With a simple change in her code, her hair immediately changes to whatever style she wants it to be.

She was programmed in Python.

She doesn't like Java. She's trying to learn it, but it kind of frustrates her sometimes.

She really likes animals! Especially rhinos.

She was activated on August 14 (which makes her a Leo).

She's really fond of older literature! "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin is one of her favorites.

She adopted a small calico kitten that she calls "Teeny."

She can speak over 247 languages fluently.

She was designed to be a friendship robot, which is why she's fairly gregarious.

She kind of slips into a Southern accent when stressed, which is weird because she's never been to the South. She'd like to visit Louisiana, though.

She loves her family so much !! And she loves having movie nights with them.

She doesn't sleep, per se, but she uses nighttime as a way to update her systems and protect herself against killware.

She loves seeing depictions of robots and AI in media, even if they're inaccurate.

She likes babies and kids; she'd like to adopt one someday.

Her favorite scent is lavender.

She can eat very limited quantities of human food, but doesn't really like it. It's the equivalent of a human eating Styrofoam for her.

She can charge in a variety of ways. She has a few solar panels attached to her roof which she plugs into every night to regain power. She always make sure to not let it go below 90%.

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