#the rise and fall of sanctuary moon

[ghostcashew]

go read the murderbot diaries

[staysaneathome]

I feel like if they make an All Systems Red movie, the opening scenes need to build up to it.

It should make you think it’s going to be a regular gritty sci-fi movie, with tracking shots of Preservation AUX moving around their harshly lit habitat and doing things in drab crew uniforms as they prep for Volescu and Bharadwaj going out to survey the surface…

And in the background of every shot, so unobtrusive as to be almost unnoticeable in the mass of activity, stands Murderbot. Unmoving. Armored. Faceless. Looming.

As it boards the cargo hold, we zoom in on its opaque helmet.

And then the voiceover tells us that rather than murdering everyone when it hacked its governor module, it decided to consume 35,000 hours of media instead.

Instant cut to The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

made a Sanctuary Moon logo/shirt!!

[gideonzero]

i drew some posters for my favourite tv show that doesn’t exist

inspired by the expanse kind of. i hope i get the time to do more of these soon and that we get to see some of trafosm in the actual show!!

[rosewind2007]

Sorry everyone BUT:

Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot’s comfort series) is the space future version of

HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER

and (having watched nearly all of season one and I can only imagine it gets less and less hinged) I don’t think we talk about this enough

Speaking as a forensic scientist, I mean—what were they even thinking?

Speaking as a…human, honestly MB: not all relationships are like that! If they were, I’d be completely locking myself in the bathroom too

[wrenzfic]

Murderbot diaries drinking game:

Mention of his shows: take a drink

Mention of Sanctuary Moon: take 2 drinks

Full name of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon: do a shot

Would actually work for an evening as most of the audio books are only a couple of hours. Rogue protocol and the back half of System Collapse would be a doozy....

[pucket]

aight, i'mma start writing a fanfiction adaptation of the rise and fall of sanctuary moon. i'll see you fuckers in 3 months. someone come check on me in a bit to make sure i haven't rotted outlining a plot

[thereadingmoon]

if you didn’t think corporation rim could get any worse, 6-7 episode-long seasons still exist and they’re THRIVING

[thumbcoffee]

Re-listening to the Murderbot Diaries audiobooks again like they're episodes of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon and I'm a SecUnit on a boring contract.

[sleep-tight-pupper]

Did anybody else catch this Murderbot reference in Teenage Excolonist?

[platypusisnotonfire]

— murderbot, on how to deal with literally any emotion

pro tip: you can rewatch your favorite media again

[cross-d-a]

I truly absolutely ADORE how in Fugitive Telemetry Ratthi and Gurathin are just like- Murderbot’s bestie sidekicks who are so ready and willing to back it up and help kick ass and investigate a murder and worry all over Murderbot and then just like— go chill and grab lunch while Murderbot is Dealing With Things and also maybe possibly getting into some harrowing trouble and that moment where Murderbot calls them and is like HELP ME and Ratthi is so started he knocks his fucking chair over and Gurathin spills his drink and they help and then Murderbot is just like can’t talk now bye and then fucks off without explaining anything or if it’s okay like- I love them soooooo baddddddd plsssss

[6th-for-truth]

I feel like the Venn diagram of Murderbot and The Locked Tomb is baaaaaaasically a circle. And it should be even more circular; so take this as a sign if you’ve been holding out on one or the other!

Stickers available here on my Etsy!

[imitationgame77]

Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon

As I was reading a very thorough list of episodes of Sanctuary Moon mentioned by Murderbot, compiled by @rosewind2007, I started wondering just how long the show had been running.

In the fun interview "Feelings REDACTED: What Happens When Murderbot and ART Talk to Instagram", Sanctuary Moon is mentioned twice:

Favorite Story arc in Sanctuary Moon? MB: Season 28, the whole thing with the rival Corporate Supervisor, and when it turned out Sparga Delfin had been replaced by a clone in episode 184, and they had to go rescue them and all the clone babies.

When you pause and think about it, if there are 6 episodes per season, the first episode of Season 28 is ep.163, but if there are 7 per seaons, Season 28 starts with ep.189. That means, each season has no fixed number of episodes, and number probably ranges 4-8 (average is 6.57, if ep. 184 is the season finale of season 28).

I wonder if each season of Sanctuary Moon comes out each year. In that case, the last episode in the list by @rosewind2007 is episode 397. So, by simple calculation of 6.57 episodes per season, it will take 60 years to reach episode 397.

The longest running drama is Law and Order (23 seasons), and the longest running sitcom is Last of the Summer Wine (31 seasons). The longet running Soap Opera is Coronation Street (64 seasons).

But in these, I assume (as I don't watch them) characters come and go. So, I wonder if characters from Sactuary Moon (including the colony solicitor...) are also replaced over the years.

[elena1701a]

Murderbot would fit right in here on Tumblr. We are all Murderbot 😀

murderbot is so relatable like

tell us your name murderbot: no

gender? murderbot: no

sexuality? murderbot: absolutely not

what about your past? murderbot: [redacted]

your mental state? muderbot: borked

do you have friends? murderbot: that would be embarrassing

tell us what you care about murderbot: [dissertation on media]

[rosewind2007]

I’m re-reading All Systems Red, and:

It’s actually quite interesting that of all the episodes of Sanctuary Moon Murderbot gives a number for in the books (All Systems Red-Netewprk Effect) episode 397 is the first one it mentions (start of All Systems Red, literally the second paragraph) and also the biggest number it mentions (the next highest number episode it mentions is 256, in Fugitive Telemetry)

Episodes it gives a number for:

Prequel, Compulsory: 44 — NB short story!

All Systems Red: 397

Artificial Condition: 206, 206, 179

Rogue Protocol: 1

Exit Strategy:

Network Effect: 174, 237, 241, 172

Fugitive Telemetry: 256, 132

System Collapse: 121, 206

In order: 1, 44, 121, 132, 172, 174, 179, 206, 206, 206, 237, 241, 256, 397

I’ve popped these into a meta which I just updated with System Collapse: