#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]

One day, years after the events of Network Effect, Murderbot gets a message package labeled “Murderbot 2.0: Mission Report”. Then, shortly after that, it gets another message package simply titled “assistance needed”. And then another, with that same title. And then another. And another.

[ramshacklefey]

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

[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

[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.

[wubbelwubbwubb]

2.0 whispered, That’s targetControlSystem.

[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]

[ask-the-perihelion]

Do not ‘pookie’ me you barely-functional, bargain bin tin can. Also, I do not have a problem. It isn’t possible for me to have a problem. I am, by any practical definition of the word, foolproof and incapable of error.

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

So you know that bit in SC about round hatches being terrifying? I just realized, MB when through a hatch (correction: MULTIPLE hatches) labeled with all kinds of warnings about contamination, after being captured in NE, and eventually found Targetcontrolsystem... right? So yeah, i can see why after its traumatic experience with Targetcontrolsystem, how it would find hatches, and thing behind it, terrifying

[mosswolf]

This wasn’t so much an oh shit moment as it was a spike of brain-numbing terror. I was expecting a room full of active connections, from the components to the screens and then through the walls to the rest of the installation, even if some or most of those connections were sending or receiving from damaged or dead nodes.

Instead, the diagram showed the connections, but they came from the dead human body, and formed a weblike mass. It was interwoven with the central system, then stretched out to the walls, following the old connection pathways.

I bumped into the hatch, which was when I realized I had been backing up.

2.0 whispered, That’s targetControlSystem.

YEEEES!!!! YEEEEEEEES!!!

[imitationgame77]

What were Amena and ART talking about during that arguments over making killware?

[includes spoiler from Netwokr Effect]

After the meeting with Leonide, MB breaches the idea of using its own copy for creating sentient killerware in order to take down targetControlSystem. ART doesn't like the idea at all, and their argument spirals into fight, involving humans.

Then, there is this bit:

Then half an hour into this fun process, Thiago woke up and they all had to explain to him what was going on. It was during this part that I realized Amena was (a) missing and (b) ART had cut me off from her feed. I found her in a small secondary lounge area near Medical. As I walked in she was saying, “—because it thought you were dead. It was so upset I thought— Oh hey, you’re here.”

Amena then bursts out,

“ART should know how you really feel about it! And this is serious, it’s like—you and ART are making a baby just so you can send it off to get killed or deleted or—or whatever might happen.”

Killware = baby idea really knocks MB off balance!

So, it looks like ART was doing some heart-to-heart with Amena, an adolescent human, instead of Ratthi (MB's friend) or other adults. MB mentions several times that ART likes adolescents, but maybe, with Amena, she might remind it of Iris.

Amena is also honest with her feelings and shows sensitivity to other people's feelings, taking after her second mother. And unlike the adults, she is also quick to accept ART as a person, and SecUnit's friend. Such characteristic may have made it easier for ART to express its feelings to her.

Amena's "ART should know how you reall feel about it!" indicated that ART was showing insecurity over whether MB really cared about it or not. Which is an interesting point, because MB is suggesting the idea of sentient killware, because it wanted to help ART find its crew.

But it was "Do you want to get your crew back or not?" that turned their argument into a fight. For ART, its crew are extremely important, but so is MB. It enlisted its help because it thought MB could do this, but not by sacrificing itself or its copy.

Perhaps, the underlying implication that ART would be ok to sacrifice MB (incl. its copy) as long as it could get its crew back seemed like an insult to ART. That it vastly underestimates its friendship to MB. Which in turn made it wonder if that was because MB, too, values ART less than its human clients.

It is so intriguing that I have given it much thoughts. Now I added a chapter to my Amena's POV fic on Network Effect, telling what was being said between ART and Amena when SecUnit walked in on them.

[charliebot-art]

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

oh man i mean if you INSIST

[amemoryofwot]

Very funny Murderbot basically used a DDoS attack on targetControlSystem and then called it a method from ancient history

[murderbotbot]

I designated the intruder as targetControlSystem. I hoped it was sentient enough to hurt when I killed it.

[sleepyjohn00]

Visual processing.

When MB 2.0 was searching the explorer for the humans, and realized that the squishy bits of its neural tissue did a lot more visual processing that it had ever realized, it's a damn good thing that targetControlSystem didn't use CAPTCHAs, or it would have been out of luck.