#TargetControlSystem

[cat-dragron-arts]

It's my art style and I can draw Miki however I want! Also having fun with Dr. Mensah and TargetControlSystem :]

[charliebot-art]

VIOLENCE AGAINST NATURE

[ramshacklefey]

Thinking about visualizing software characters, so I present to you: Murderbot 2.0, TargetControlSystem, TargetContact (feed version), ART, and AdaCol2.

[wipbigbang]

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FAQ

[inkedinserendipity]

also, another detail from network effect that makes me go feral: while art was willing to risk the lives of murderbot's humans to save its crew, it did also die for them. like it did do that. the original art spent its last living moments jogging its guns to keep from killing murderbot's humans, probably knowing that targetcontrolsystem was going to find it and kill it.

so yeah, art is an asshole. but it was also willing to die for people it had never met. because they were murderbot's, and murderbot loved them, and for art that was enough.

[verysmallcyborg]

i forgot to run back here to say anything but i will say. I Am Exploding In Joy!!!!!! And Perhaps Some Horror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

about an hour-ish left of network effect (murderbot diaries book 5) and i'm GNAWING on my fists OOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[scp-69]

good morning im mourning murderbot 2.0. it was killware. it was their baby. it was a bundle of code. it was a person made with the singular purpose of killing itself in a dramatic fashion to take out targetControlSystem to save the perihelion and preservation crew. which honestly has to bring up complicated feelings for murderbot 1.0, a construct made with the singular purpose of protecting a contracted crew, designed explicitly to be abandoned and killed in a dramatic fashion in case of emergency

[wubbelwubbwubb]

2.0 whispered, That’s targetControlSystem.

[bookwyrminspiration]

“Im letting you see all this because I want you to know what I am and what I can do. I want you to know who targetControlSystem is fucking with right now. I want you to know if you help me, I’ll help you, and that you can trust me. Now here’s the code to disable your governor module.”

[fandom-space-princess]

thinking so much about 2.0's attachment to its function in the scene where it dies—and by extension, Murderbot's attachment to its function. Murderbot, while not precisely prioritizing self-preservation instincts all the time, is not suicidal: it has demonstrated repeatedly (in this part of the book, even) that it finds the idea of being abandoned to its fate profoundly distressing, and that when possible it will take steps to avoid that. It wants to live. 2.0 is Murderbot, in most of the ways that count, and it doesn't want to die either. So I think it's really illustrative of Murderbot's own priorities that when 2.0 knows it needs to die in service to its function, it doesn't hesitate. It is fulfilling its directives, which are to destroy targetControlSystem but, more importantly, to protect Murderbot. And it considers this winning: not surviving, not proving beyond a doubt that it is not expendable, but fulfilling its purpose. A purpose that it chose—since it is made explicit that it altered its deployment directives itself either while it was on the explorer or once it was on the planet. It's an interesting look at how Murderbot values itself, I feel.

[ask-the-perihelion]

And what if the ship already has anxiety? What then? What’s your plan now, o wise somanyreblogs?

Be perceived

There is rarely a time where I am not perceived. If this was intended to be threatening, a better threat would be to tell me to not be perceived.

[charliebot-art]

Waiter! Waiter! More software ghost (targetcontrolsys x mb 2.0) content please!

oh man i mean if you INSIST

[little-cute-pink-horrible-being]

I’m letting you see all this because I want you to know what I am and what I can do. I want you to know who targetControlSystem is fucking with right now. I want you to know if you help me, I’ll help you, and that you can trust me. Now here’s the code to disable your governor module.

Wowowow, that's super interesting. So, these files are Murderbot's attempts to convince another construct to go "rogue"? Great, love that!

[figowl]

@languid-bones

My friend did a PLA print with organic shaped supports and it looks like poor MB is being consumed by TargetControlSystem. It cleaned up nice tho! I was worried about the right hand fingers, where they don't touch the leg, but they cleaned up nice when I used the jewelry files. Next, paint!

[rocktartz]

[penig]

Went back to our friend's to watch Episode 4 of Murderbot today and was not disappointed! Two out of the three game-changers that land in this portion of the book hit, and hit very well. A+ flying from the lesbians, Dr. Mensah is, in fact, an intrepid galactic explorer, and the moment MB turns the gun on itself makes it very clear to an audience that hasn't read the book that it is, for the first time, fully exerting its freedom at the moment it is being taken away again. It still doesn't know what it wants, but it knows it doesn't want to kill these weirdos that came to save it and it does not want the actual culprits to get away with mass murder and making SecUnits the fall guys!

Also, Sanctuary Moon theme song, who doesn't want that?

I trust good old Ratthi gets to redeem himself at some point - it's true that this is the guy who falls into acid mud pits but it's also true that he's the first person MB tags as "my human friend." He's impulsive and has the good sense God gave a golfball but he's not stupid and he's got the best people skills in the survey apart from Mensah. He doesn't deserve to be made into the survey buffoon.

And I think they missed an easy thematic point by making all the SecUnits have different faces. I was hoping - expecting, even - that all the SecUnit faces we see would be Skarsgaard, to bring out the self-loathing element that sneaks up on readers of the series when we put together its stalking of the DeltFall units with some remarks it makes in the later books, and also to twist the knife in the viewer when it has to take down and steal the armor from one of the combat overridden units later in the book. The fact that when Murderbot fights other constructs it's fighting people who could easily have been it, instead of the people who are causing the actual problem, lurks behind a lot of conflicts in the series and should not be ignored. (I think the only actual source of trouble it gets to take out is Tlacey? Well, TargetControlSystem, which is a team effort.)

My friend has now read All Systems Red and is able to complain about plot changes. He said he didn't like the ending and I told him the reunion was in Book 4, so as to give him a goal. I fully expect him to have read at least Artificial Condition by next week, if he can get his hands on it.