#secunit 3

[fandom-space-princess]

so the thing about the scene in System Collapse where Three offers Murderbot its armor and Murderbot doesn't take it is that this is an excellent example of Murderbot sometimes being an unreliable narrator, not in an attempt to intentionally mislead, but because its own background and experiences are so specific that it often misinterprets others' intentions. Murderbot says this scene happens because Three doesn't grasp that it might have personal possessions that belong to it, but the timing and context of the offer (and the fact that Three repeats it later, when MB has to go down to the planet) suggest that Three understands perfectly well what it is offering. Murderbot doesn't always trust its own internality and/or motivations, and that bleeds over into broad distrust for Three's as well, but its perceptions are also informed by the fact that it has no close experience working with others like it before. Three *does* have that experience, to whatever extent. Imo it knew exactly what it was doing when it offered its armor to MB, and it understood the rejection to some extent as well, or it wouldn't have made the offer a second time.

[jadefyre]

can you imagine mb and three on one of those “experts react” type youtube vids lmao

“two rogue secunits react to the CR’s WORST security FAILS!!”

[lost-in-derry]

Me in any given social situation:

- The Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect

[polyhexian]

Query: what is wrong with you

[fluister]

Ratthi and Murderbot (and ART, probably) introducing Three to Sanctuary Moon

[lostsometime]

SecUnit 3 worrying about its first-ever retrieval mission done as a free agent like “I want to get a good grade in Rogue SecUnit retrieval, which might be normal to want but I don’t know because there’s no protocol for that”

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Observation:

At no point does murderbot ever describe secunit three.

Every other person, human or bot, is described. We get hair colour, skin colour, clothing, gender marker from their feed, approximate age (as best as MB is able to guess, anyways.)

Bots are described by their shape, sometimes by colour, number of limbs, etc. Even the ComfortUnit on Ravihyral is described. Blue hair, light brown skin.

But no sec unit is ever described. We have no idea what murderbot looks like. We have no idea what secunit3 looks like. Or any of the other units MB interacts with. And I just think that's a fascinating writing choice on Martha Wells's part.

[cat-dragron-arts]

Hands you Three and Holism and various other doodles. Notes on my design for Holism under the cut for those who are interested!

Hello nerd, welcome to my ramble zone. I love having ART be this very abstract, sharp shape and I wanted Holism to have the same feeling but to the left. So, here are my thoughts comparing Holism and ART's designs :]

Holism is more square shaped while ART is overall rounder.

Holism is much more 'rigid' in feeling, it doesn't change its shape as often as ART does.

Holism has larger, more angular eyes that always stay outside of its main 'body', ART on the other hand has smaller, more oval eyes that can be either outside or inside its 'body'.

Holism always looks disinterested about whatever it is looking at though that isn't always the case. ART's eyes are very expressive in comparison.

[goozeghost]

Haha get Tubed™️ idiots 😂🫵

[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 😔😔😔

[foxprints]

Murderbot, Three, and ART off on some sort of adventure!

[fandom-space-princess]

hey so do you ever think about how Murderbot prefers to watch fiction because that was how it first taught itself to process the world beyond its prior experiences. and how Three prefers nonfiction for probably close to the exact same reason (that it taught itself to process the world beyond its prior experiences through nonfiction i.e. Murderbot's memories). do you ever think about how many of Murderbot's mannerisms Three is almost certainly picking up. and how many of them Murderbot itself probably originally picked up from reruns of Sanctuary Moon.

because I think about this. you know. the normal amount.

[ghostcashewart]

"I've never retrieved another Sec-Unit before. There is no protocol for this." - Network Effect by Martha Wells

i decided to draw a more action-y murderbot scene!

[electricdazeworld]

Currently haunted by the idea of a role reversal au between Murderbot, Three and ART.

Murderbot get's something akin to ART's origins, having been "born" on Preservation and raised as a part of Mensah's family and has never really had an active governor module.

Three get's something akin to Murderbot's origins, having hacked it's own governor module due to something that happened to it. Maybe because of Ganaka Pit and/or something akin to what happened in Network Effect simply without any of the other characters present. (Secunit 01 and Secunit 02 are definitely dead though)

ART get's something akin to Three's origins, perhaps being a gunship instead of a research transport and being made to help take over colonies by force. Gaining it's vast operating power through salvaging processors from other things behind it's company's back.

A different scenario

Part 2

[agentem]

"There is a lot about what is going on here that I don't understand, but I am participating anyway."

Three is also relatable.

[m00nymonster]

TWO OF A KIND

MB & Three

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It’s quiet here.

1.0 and I are on a planet. I know 1.0 hates planets, but this one is nice. It is night, and the humans are asleep. I don’t even sense any wild fauna creeping around the edges of the camp, and our drones dance under the stars. There is very little light pollution here, and a swath of galaxy is visible between billions of brilliant pinpricks of light. Even 1.0 is staring.

“It’s…nice,” I say eventually. 1.0 darts a look at me.

“What?”

“The stars. This night.”

“Hmm.” 1.0 looks up again. “I’d rather be on  a station.”

I grin, just a little. “I know. But portholes don’t look the same.”

“No, they don’t.”

A few small fauna approach us curiously. Our drones chase them away. The humans are snoring behind us. A meteor darts across the sky, followed by several more. It appears to be a meteor storm.

“I never got to see anything like this before,” I say. “When B-E…owned me.”

“Me neither. I was mostly on mining installations, or surveys. I mostly looked at walls.”

“Me too.”

“Mmm. Hey, that meteorite is green.”

“Meteor, I think.”

“Whatever. Ratthi says humans make wishes on them. Stupid. It’s just a rock, right?”

“What would you wish for?” I ask, curious. 1.0 stares as more and more meteors fall in brilliant lines.

“Dunno. Got everything I want.” It looks surprised for a moment, like it hadn’t expected to say that, then looks away.

I inch a few centimeters closer. “Me, too.”

We continue to watch the stars.