#System on Modules

[chemical-processes]

I want a fic where murderbot has to act human around another Secunit who's 10000% convinced that it's human and needs immediate rescue

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

rip secunit 3 😔😔😔 you're not dead but you would have loved saving the lives of a whole colony of innocent humans by making a factually honest and emotionally compelling documentary 😔😔😔

[mothcpu]

i was reading dect like any ultrakill fan would but then i had a question in mind

i might be thinking too hard into it, but what would those parts be named? do they already have names? or were they randomly labled for the story?

they absolutely have names; they're all FANUC industrial machine part numbers!

[tcfactory]

Think fast, Sentinel. That is what you are for, after all.

Today on "this is not what I planned to draw, but I think it turned out Neat": a nightmare.

Sentinel from my ongoing fanfic verse, Crossed Sparks.

This won't make much sense without the context of the fic, but I'm basically playing around with the idea of a Sentinel who was custom made for his position of the Principal Aide.

Bonus closeup because this thing is huge:

[radiantmists]

so murderbot assumes that three offered its armor because it doesn't understand that the armor can belong to it and thinks mb taking the armor is just good resource allocation.

but if it assumes it doesnt have control over the armor, it would probably let whoever it sees as in charge (maybe ART?) handle it, or at least make the suggestion directly to that person. even newly freed in NE, it's willing to give its security advice (on hostage situations being undesirable) even if it doesn't expect to be taken seriously. it doesn't make sense to me that it would have so much trouble expressing the offer if it were just a security suggestion.

and then i think about how murderbot says later in the book that even if three felt fondly toward its fellow SecUnits, the govmod would prevent it from expressing that care or knowing it was returned.

so-- imagine you're three, and you havent yet internalized that you can just say "i care about you and dont want you to get hurt" to another SecUnit; but you can make sure that it has every resource it might need; you could probably do that even before the govmod was hacked.

you can't explain why, but you can hope that the gesture is explanation enough, and you can look for similar caretaking gestures in return; things like being given code and advice to do your job better, and being reassured when you express that you're finding said job difficult.

i think *murderbot* isn't aware of this language of care, because it hasnt had much opportunity to bond with other constructs. but three probably is, and probably knows how to read between the lines and guess that murderbot is starting to care about it, too.

[wintercalamity]

Ok so v1 has internal organs and enough sentience to not wanna die

[iamfuckingsorry]

"Do you know where we are going next?" I asked ART.

Y'know what, I think maybe I don't need any more Murderbot books. I think maybe ending things here is fucking perfect and as much as I love Wells's writing I'm genuinely not sure it can get better for me.

Like, so much of the books are about MB learning how to be a person, about becoming okay with being a complete individual with everything it entails. The first thing it does once it's actually allowed to decide on its own is it runs away from it all (admittedly to go on a mission to confirm some things about its past, because it genuinely just wants to be *good*). It shoves all its emotions away as much as it's able to. Then shit happens, and it makes its first friends, makes decisions based on these friendships, goes through a lot of emotionally intense situations...

And we get to this point here. MB having zero doubts about going with ART says a lot about its relationship with ART, but it also says a lot about its relationship with its humans - it knows that wherever it goes, when it comes back, the humans will still be there. Its humans actively acknowledge its struggles with being a now-free SecUnit and MB is willing to entertain the discussions to an extent and share information about its deeply personal experiences. Hell, System Collapse ends with MB admitting it might be somewhat broken, but that's okay as long as it can keep doing its job, and agreeing to basically do counselling - this is the guy what would rewatch its favourite TV show again and again in order to avoid acknowledging it even had Emotions a couple books back.

Reading this, I know that MB will be okay. It has hopes and goals and genuinely believes in itself and it has an amazing support system that its willing to lean on for the first time in its life. I'm convinced it'll go on to do great things with ART. And that's really the only thing I need to know.

[syistoppedgivingafuck]

[whirligig-girl]

What's your favorite Spacecraft, both real and fictional?

It would be impossible to choose a favorite real spacecraft but my favorite fictional spacecraft is probably the Galaxy Class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

Partly because I love the TNG technical manual and partly because it's just gorgeous. Easily the best looking ship to carry the name.

Some candidates for my favorite real spacecrafts: The Space Shuttle Orbiters (Space Transportation System) (1981-2011). Truly horrendous design. Unsafe, inefficient, but unquestionably gorgeous and utterly iconic, having defined human spaceflight for at least two generations.

You may have a death toll but I can't stay mad at you...

The Apollo Lunar Modules (1969-1972). These babies have a negative death toll, being instrumental in the rescue of the Apollo 13 astronauts and being uninvolved in the Apollo 1 fire. They are also one of two unquestionably iconic U.S. government vehicles designed and built by Grumman with "L" in the name--the other is the USPS Long Life Vehicle.

Skylab. They really did just say "what if we emptied out a rocket tank and turn it into a space station." and it has the dubious honor of being the only space station with a spacious enough volume to test cold-gas EVA-jetpacks and to have a shower. All while having its sun shield and one of its solar panels torn off. It's even large enough that you can run along the outside, and the centrifugal force of your own circular motion is enough to keep you on the walls/floor.

New Horizons (launch 2006, arrival at Pluto 2015, arrival at Arrokoth 2019).

Cassini (launch 1997, arrival 2004, destroyed at end of mission 2017)

and the Voyagers (especially Voyager 2) Launch: 1977 Jupiter: 1979 Saturn: 1980 and 1981 Uranus: 1986 Neptune: 1989 Heliopause: 2012 & 2018 Current status: transmitting from Interstellar space (in terms of heliophysics. Still well within the sun's gravitational sphere of influence)

Robotic spacecrafts are the fuckin' best.

[lonestarflight]

Worker installing the Aerojet AJ10-137 (Service Module Engine) on an Apollo Service Module at North American's Downey facility.

Date: March 28, 1966

SDASM Archives Casson_0023, Casson_0024

[thehumanwiki]

I wonder what would happen if the Maestro from Doctor Who, who is music incarnate, knew about microtones. Like, if they saw this—

would they explode.

[sw5w]

Delta-7 Detaches

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:41:01 - 00:41:03

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

this system sure is collapsing, am i right?

anyway meet procedure module <3 it has like..... chill older brother energy. its design is not creative lmao

[cleangreen0]

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[sableeira]

bugs are the most evil and fucked up things on this planet

[radiantmists]

the whole "it would be kinder to kill them" exchange re-contextualizes murderbot's initial willingness-- even eagerness-- to kill other SecUnits in an interesting way, doesn't it.