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actually on the point of murderbot’s design. it’s been driving me crazy recently so i’m going to ramble. we know several things about it

- it has a significant amount of skin/flesh on its back, based on the amount of times it comments on getting shot there & that really good description in NE of flesh peeling off and dripping down it’s back in chunks

- it has enough mechanical parts visible from the outside of it’s body that it would NOT be able to pass as an augmented human naked (also: it does not have genitalia). tapan only ever saw it in full clothing but she noticed and commented on it having a LOT of (presumed) augments. it is unclear what she saw to give her this impression

- it’s legs/feet don’t look like human feet at all, but it’s hands, face, and neck (excepting the data port) can pass as human.

these are all fascinating because like. from a functional standpoint. mb says that it’s feet don’t look human because the company ‘wasn’t concerned with making that part look human’, meaning probably it’s hands and face look human for at least partially cosmetic reasons. HOWEVER. the fact that it has flesh on it’s back signals at least to me that there is SOME practical benefit to giving it actual human muscle/skin? the benefits are probably a) that human muscle is malleable and stretches well, and can hold form and shape in a way that we certainly can’t reproduce now (and from the tech seen in full bots in the mb series, i don’t think they can either); and b) if they’re using it for muscle

so then this implies it has muscle & skin where flexibility is an issue. this makes sense; the main issue with recreating a human form robotically would be those parts. i assume it’s feet are fully or mostly robotic for wear purposes, and because feet really do not have that much stretch with the muscles involved. the back, on the other hand, would probably be a nightmare to try to make fully robotically without flexible robotics

this implies it’s stomach/front are probably human for the same reasons. on the other hand, there’s no real flexibility reason for it’s arms to be human, especially with the gunports; that would depend on how much human muscle is actually the muscle behind secunits. i assume with some weird future tech cloned tissue could be significantly stronger, and having a skeleton made of hsla steel would theoretically remove the upper limit humans currently have. if the muscle is human then it needs human parts on its arms from its back at least halfway down its forearms, and likewise it would need it’s thighs and at least halfway down the back of its lower leg. on the other hand, if there’s some mechanical way to power the strength behind secunits, then there’s really very little reason for human parts on its limbs at all besides shaping it to wear clothes functionally.

there’s also the issue of space: mb definitely needs processor space (i’m sorry i’m NOT accepting it doesn’t have a full human brain in it’s skull. it can have two brains i can’t imagine you could cut a human brain in half and just have that be fine it has a full brain) and it needs battery and reactor space. it also probably needs general space all throughout it’s body for wiring, servos, ect.

battery, reactor, servos, aka Big Stuff, are probably in it’s midsection. it doesn’t have a digestive system so presumably there’s just a lot of Space there. it’s mentioned that this is usually where humanform bots have their brain, and i don’t know where in the world else all of that would go, so it goes there. i assume it has some kind of flexible cage between it’s ribs and it’s hips, or possibly it’s ribs extend further down; this is just because it gets shot in the stomach a LOT!! and the idea of it’s brain being there and it’s just chill with that is giving me hives.

i’m not even going to address the battery/reactor thing because accepting self charging batteries & small localized reactors is just something that comes with sci-fi. it doesn’t make any sense but nothing works otherwise so we are Looking Away. anyways that’s probably also in it’s midsection. presumably there’s a split between servos and battery/reactor around it’s waist, similar to where [liver/stomach/assorted small organs] and intestines differ on a human. i would probably put battery/reactor on the intestines half since presumably it’s bigger and less important

everything else, wires and stuff, are probably handled either by running through bones or right over bones (i CANNOT remember if it has coolant in canon or if that’s something someone said in a fanfic and i internalized). it probably has several cords in the place of a spinal column doing double duty both AS it’s spinal column and as the main connector between it’s brains, which actually makes the location of the dataport seem like a very intuitive place. (i also think it mentions the gov module functioning somewhere around here, but i can’t remember whether the gov module had like a physical component or if just the fry-u-up bit was there?) it’s not hard to imagine wires traveling with/similar paths to veins in the body. same shit really

this is a very long post that said very little but it helped ME