There are a number of great discord servers for Murderbot Diaries (book series) fans, each with a little different characteristics.
Murderbot Transit Hub was created as a beginner-friendly place for those new to both fandom and discord/communities. We have separate channels for each book so that people who only started reading can join the discussion without any fear of spoilers. We also act like a hub station to other servers.
We've been running a weekly audio-book listen-along (Kevin R Free version) since the launch back in September 2024. We are shortly starting System Collapse, and plan to move on to the upcoming Platform Decay (to be published on May 5, 2026). Our listen-along event is pretty relaxed. You can choose to just passively listen or you can also share your reactions in text channels. (Thus, no need to use the microphone)
You are most welcome to join us.
A beginner-friendly discord server for The Murderbot Diaries fans! All are welcome! | 196 members
If you prefer small-scale servers, there are several, again with notable differences. My personal experience in them are limited but I will try to describe them, in the chronological order of their foundation, in as unbiased a manner as possible.
(1) Preservation
An aroace/aspec friendly server where discussing Murderbot in a romantic/sexual manner is prohibited.
Canon-consistent discussion of ships (e.g., Mensah and her spouses, Arada/Overse) are fine but mostly take place in the designated area.
Letting off steam by sharing negative views on the books and adaptations is allowed
AKA "Tree server" as you can 'water' the tree to make it grow
There are both on-topic and off-topic categories with multiple channels
Not a place if you are primarily interested in the TV adaptation
Automated welcome message alerts your joining the server to all the members in the welcome channel and you may get welcoming reactions. But they will leave you alone until you initiate interactions.
(2) Moistbot
Adult-only server primarily focused on romantic/sexual relationships among characters, including Murderbot
Highly creative and members often jointly create stories ('noodle') in threads
Weekly prompts are suggested and selected by members to explore various kink ideas
Recommended for those interested in fan-creations than discussing canon materials
Automated welcome message in the welcome channel alerts your appearance to all the members upon joining the server. People may react with a 'wave' to welcome you!
(3) Murderbot Transit Hub
All-age, beginner-friendly server (for both the Murderbot Diaries series and Discord Servers)
Primarily a place to discuss book-canon materials, with separate channels for each book, audiobook, and other adaptations
Non-canon consistent shipping is discouraged and there are no NSFW channels
Has been running weekly listen-along events for Murderbot audiobooks, as well as other popular audiobook (e.g., Project Hail Mary, Mickey 7)
Since it's created as a "transit hub", too, info and links to other servers are found
There is no automated welcome channel, so you can quietly enter and observe without being noticed until you are ready.
(4) Murderserver
Sister server of Moistbot for all Murderbot fans
Fanwork centric with weekly prompts (gen) and lots of lively discussion, but other general channels also exist
Shipping (including Murderbot) is allowed with lots of separate channels for different ships
There are channels for discussing the TV adaptations
There are lots of creative events, movie streaming sessions, voice chat, etc.
Automated welcome message in the welcome channel alerts your appearance to all the members upon joining the server. People may react with a 'wave' to welcome you!
I've heard of other more small, niche servers but don't know enough to talk about them. You are bound to get invited directly if you share interests with those on these servers.
So, currently there are two large Murderbot discord servers with 1,000+ members: The Murderbot Diaries 2.0 (2.0) and New Tideland (NT).
When you are new to the fandom and maybe also new to Discord servers, at a glance they look pretty similar. They both have on-topic (i.e., Murderbot related) and off-topic (i.e., non-Murderbot) categories with multiple channels. Both servers have channels to chat about daily things, discuss and post images of food, animals, plants, etc., discuss real-life issues, etc. Both have channels where people share their creative works. They also run various events.
But they are quite distinct from each other based on very different running/moderation principles. While many people can enjoy both of them, it's also possible that your particular preferences are better met by one of them.
But before getting into the differences, your initial experience upon entering the servers is the same. Upon arrival, you will automatically receive a set of welcoming message and information on rules, etc. Your entry is not announced to the general members, so you can quietly lurk and observe for a while until you get your bearings.
In my personal opinions based on observations, here are the differences:
2.0 Server
Suitable for those who want to be able to curate their experience without having to remove yourselves from ongoing conversation.
Potentially triggering topics, such as health, food, politics have designated areas. When people accidentally go off the topics for the channel, usually moderators, "greeters", and long-term members gently move the conversation to a more appropriate designation. People gladly move without any resentment.
You don't see shipping in main channels, as the server has many aspec (and adjacent) members who are not interested in shipping.
Shipping does exist and people discuss them in a designated area that uses multiple threads. Shippers and non-shippers peacefully coexist in main areas and (as far as I can see) there is no conflict as the actual shipping-talk does not take place in any of the main channels.
The server uses threads A LOT. People are used to using threads, and the greeters regularly draw attention to threads in each channel by making them visible.
Expression of negative views are allowed, and for things where both positive and negative opinions exist in abundance, like the tv adaptation, threads are created so that people can express themselves without upsetting those with different views.
Many events are organised by the members of the 2.0 server, but you may not always notice this as they don't advertise in order to make it as inclusive as they can. But "Bingo" and "New Year Gift Exchange" are some of their events.
For moderation/concerns, you can fill their "feedback sheet" (Google Docs), or alternatively, you can find a moderator that you have interacted with (and/or find easier to talk to, based on observation) and message them directly. There is a list of moderators and "greeters".
NT Server
Suitable for those who are happy with the attitude of "agree to disagree" in general, and rarely perturbed by seeing topics you don't like being discussed potentially anywhere and can just ignore and scroll on.
You need to be aware that it is up to you to avoid seeing the topics you don't want to see. Their rule is a lot more relaxed than the 2.0, and people are rarely discouraged from discussing something that appears to be outside of the scope of the channel. (Obviously, nsfw topics are not allowed in sfw areas, though)
There are lots of channels for both sfw and nsfw shipping (including those involving Murderbot itself). Many of the popular pairings have dedicated channels, but you can also talk about other characters in them, especially if the said-character doesn't have a dedicated channel.
They strongly encourage positive discussion of the series (both the book series and the tv show), and expressions of negative views are not recommended. (It's against their "do not yuck other people's yum" principle.)
They have lots of events including regular creative (for both art and fiction) workshops, book-reading, and film viewing events. You may see "New Tideland" tags on works on Archives of Our Own (Ao3).
For moderation/concerns, you can use contact the moderator team by using their ticket system. All the moderators will get notified and ones available (there are nine as far as I have counted) will get back to you. You could try contacting one directly, but there is no unified list of moderators, so you might not be able to find them if they are offline/invisible.
In sum, if you want to feel safe, knowing whatever topic you want to avoid only happens in the designated area, are happy to comply with the rules of sticking to the topics for each channel, adding image descriptions (or ALT) to the images when you post them (for those who rely on text readers), 2.0 is a good fit for you. It is carefully and skillfully moderated.
If you prefer to be able to talk more freely, without having to remember "I'm not supposed to talk about this here" or dislike being asked to move to a different channel, then NT will be a better place for you.
But as I said, this is based on my observation. You can always see for yourself by joining them.
Port FreeCommerce - Unnamed Station in Mihira & New Tideland System: [unknown time]
Mihira & New Tideland - RaviHyral: 21 cycles
RaviHyral - [Unnamed]: 7 cycles
[Unnamed] - HaveRatton: 26 cycles
HaveRatton - Milu: 20 cycles
HaveRatton - "hub station": 7 cycles
"hub station" - TranRollinHyfa: 4 cycles
Preservation - NE Survey Planet: 4 Preservation cycles
Preservation - Adamantine Colony: 20 cycles
Other Locations:
All Systems Red Survey Planet
Divarti Cluster: Tapan's collective is from this noncorporate polity.
Kalidon: Corporate Rim political entity where company funding Ganaka was based.
GoodNightLander Independent's home polity: Noncorporate, ownership of SecUnits banned.
Parthalos Absalo: Noncorporate.
WayBrogatan: Indie station.
Network Effect Survey Planet.
Station from the short story Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy.
UplandGateway One: Nearest station to the Mihira & New Tideland system. Corporate charters say stations are supposed to be independent/sovereign territory.
Planetary Torus.
I tried making noncorporate polities warm-colored and corporate ones cool-colored. But not sure I got that all right, and sometimes it's ambiguous.
Thank you to mensah for sharing their transit time notes with me!
If I See One More Person Define Quoiromantic Wrong I'm Going to Scream
When I was a much younger Fey, a friend explained the concept of aromanticism to me.
"But," said I, "How can someone be aromantic? What is it they aren't experiencing? There's no One Thing that romantic love is."
Some readers will now be laughing and shaking their heads at young Fey, who just didn't know he was aromantic yet. Those readers would be wrong.
The term I use to describe myself is quoiromantic: I fundamentally reject the categories of romantic and platonic love. Being quoiromantic says nothing about what sorts of emotions I experience. It's about how I view those emotions and my relationships with other people. Kasumi Nakamura's article "The Quoiromantic Manifesto" is fantastic, and AsexualAgenda did an Ace Journal Club piece on it that gives a slightly more accessible summary.
What makes me want to screech is people defining quoiromantic as "unable to distinguish between platonic and romantic love" or "unsure of the difference" or "doesn't understand romantic love." These definitions cast being quoiromantic as something like being red-green colorblind: "romantic" and "platonic" are two categories which exist and can be distinguished by most people, but I for some reason lack this ability. Charmingly, it also manages to paint being quoiromantic as a kind of immaturity, since being able to identify and categorize one's own emotions is, y'know, a sign of being a grown-up. It also opens up this whole world of people thinking I need their help, or thinking they get to tell me what I'm feeling, the way one might tell a colorblind friend whether the shirt they're wearing is red or not. Delightful.
I understand where the confusion comes in. As the Asexual Agenda post points out, the glossary definitions of Queer Identities tend to treat them all as "intrinsic identities with clear distinctions between them." In Anglo-U.S. circles Queer Identities are focused on inner experiences: what do you feel? for whom? how do you view yourself? We have a major aversion to claiming things as part of ourselves which can't be claimed as intrinsic. (Things that aren't intrinsic are Lifestyle Choices, and Lifestyle Choices can be Immoral, and Immorality can be Outlawed.)
Quoiromantic isn't an identity in that way. Like I said, it's not a description of my inner world. I use the term for myself because it covers a set of ideas I believe are true, and those ideas inform the way I structure my interpersonal relationships.
And the fundamental idea is that romantic love vs platonic love is a false distinction. The categories are incoherent. ("Incoherent" is different than "nonexistent.") You can't fix the problem by adding a "secret third thing."
It's not that there's any particular emotion which doesn't exist. It's that when you look into the distinction between romantic and platonic love, there isn't one. There's love or whatever you want to call it, and it comes in infinite shades and textures and weights, but those two categories are nonsense. Once you start trying to find the actual distinction between them, it's easy to see.
As far as I can tell, all of the following could be considered parts of romantic love:
enjoying Person's company more than anyone else's;
feeling you life would be incomplete without Person in it;
the desire to share a household with Person (meaning shared finances etc, not just roommates);
wanting Person to like you more than they like anyone else and prioritize your needs and well-being over everyone else's (or at least putting you very very very high on their priorities list);
being pathetically attached to Person and feeling you are worthless without their approval;
obsessing over Person (worrying about them, wanting to know all about them, finding them fascinating, etc);
wanting to care for/serve Person and ensure all their needs are met;
wanting to be allies/comrades with Person for life;
being absolute besties who get each other in ways no one else does;
fighting constantly but always making up again;
It's a pick and choose list. They aren't all necessary and there's no magical "romantic if checks this many boxes" number. Probably no one is going to feel all these things for their Person at once. (I left out sexual attraction and oxytocin-induced-infatuation on purpose, and I'll circle back to them.)
Still, feels like a pretty good list, yeah? These are, if nothing else, the sort of things I see people go "there's no platonic explanation for that" about.
Here's the fun part:
Everything on this list is something folks feel about their close kin. These are all things normal people feel about their parents, children, and siblings. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume we agree that none of this would indicate romantic love in those situations. (Which is why I specified close kin, rather than friends.)
I'll go further and say there's almost nothing (again, I'm getting to the sex part) you could add as a necessary element of romantic love which would set it apart from an emotional state a normal person could experience toward a sibling, parent, or child. Because the thing we call "romantic love" isn't a specific, unique thing by itself.
Which is fine. What's the point of setting apart something we call "romantic love" in the first place? How does doing that help us? What benefit do you get out of being able to categorize all your emotions this way? Would it change how you approach finding friends, choosing roommates, deciding who you want to fuck, or raise kids with, or share finances with, if you didn't have the amorphous concept of "romantic" hanging over you? Would you love more easily if you didn't feel the need to grasp at one, imagined category so tightly it shredded you every time someone went away?
I can't see anything to lose by tossing the category, as long as I get to keep the feelings and see how they're actually so much richer and more varied and colorful than I could've imagined. The way they show up in so many more places in my life's tapestry, and the way I get to be so much freer to be honest about giving and accepting love.
That's why I'm quoiromantic.
And why I'm going to bite the next person who says I just can't tell the difference between emotions.
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Post-script:
OKAY FINE let's talk about sexual attraction and infatuation, the two things people always bring up when I say romantic love doesn't exist.
Sexual Attraction: Outside the queer tumblr scenes, this is the delineating factor for romantic love generally. It's some combination of things on the list up there + sexual attraction. Honestly? If that's really the entirety of your definition, I'm fine with that. It makes romantic love into something quite trivial when you think about it though. "I wanna fuck you," is quite the mundane sentiment all told. But if you're willing to separate it from everything else, I'll accept your definition.
Oh, but one more thing. Could you tell me. Does all sexual attraction to someone indicate romantic love? If not, you're right back in the same problem as before you brought this one up. If sexual attraction does always indicate romantic love, then you're just made romantic love and sexual attraction the same thing. Which. I guess you can do. But I'd suggest having a good sit-down-and-think before you make any life choices based on who you wanna fuck today.
Oxytocin/Infatuation/Being in Love: This is an interesting one, becuase it does point to a specific emotional state, which we can sorta "measure" (the way we'd measure anger or fear via brain chemicals, not measure subjectively). This intoxicating cocktail of hormones does a number on your brain and yes, is responsible for the "in love with" feeling of infatuation. Do we want to use it as the defining feature for romantic love?
Well, it'd be good to remember that this is the same thing experienced by new parents bonding with their infants. It's the "glue these two humans together because one of them stands to immediately die without the other one" cocktail.* It's heady and exhilerating and absolutely not sustainable long-term. As in your-brain-cannot-physically-manage-that-it-would-be-bad-for-you. With this one again, I'd actually say if this is your whole definition of romantic love, then I'll work with it. I'll also say that if this is your whole definition of romantic love, then you need to entirely rework what place you think romantic love has in your life. Making decisions based on this state of mind is about as reasonable as me making decisions during a manic episode.
*("Caretaker not paying enough attention to me" is a literal existential threat to a baby. Cigars be cigars but it's hilarious to me that "Person not paying enough attention to me feels like an existential threat" remains an effect of this chemical state in adults, and it's considered a Normal Way to Feel.)
I liked Murderbot from the first page of the first book. I liked it was more interested in watching media than becoming a mass murderer. I could get how awkward it could be to be perceived. I liked the way it was so often anxious but was super-competent when it came to security. I liked how it felt like it was melting inside when Dr. Mensah showed such a good understanding and demonstrated her acknowledgement of its personhood in a gentle way.
But what drew me to the fandom to the extent that I wanted to write posts and post fanfictions was the fascinating relationship between Murderbot and ART. I love Murderbot's relationship with humans, too, but the fact that they had found rapport with each other when neither had ever met anyone that could understand them in the way that humans couldn't do made it so special.
Murderbot always had to be protective with the humans and was initially worried if it was safe for the humans to be around it. Most humans have other social groups to be part of and cannot do media-watching-marathon without a break like Murderbot.
ART had never experienced being so thoroughly perceived (as feed presence) nor had it been able to enjoy human media. They could lower their guards and be rude to each other with the implicit understanding that these are signs of intimacy.
Coming from the background where Aspec was not a widely-known term or concept, 'romance' and 'platonic' have slightly but significantly different meanings, I had had misunderstanding which I didn't even recognise at first. But it's been a fascinating learning experience for me since I came to this fandom 2 years ago.
I decided to document my understanding so far as a meta post on Ao3. I apologise in advance if there are still some errors in my understanding.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
It has two chapters. The first chapter is a usual fandom meta, and I wrote the second chapter like an academic article for fun. (Fun for me, that is...)
Well, since I posted the Systems Count, I may as well post my "module" count".
I have become so familiar with risk and threat assessment modules that it came as a surprise that the "risk assessment module"'s first proper mention was not until Exit Strategy and the "threat assessment module" in Network Effect.
Not surprisingly, the "governor module" has the highest mention counts with 153 times across the series (from ASR to PD). The next highest one is the "mental health module" at 70 times, including the times when MB is simply checking its emotion without referring to the module by the name.
Despite the fact that the risk assessment gets mentioned one book earlier, Murderbot seems to rely on the threat assessment module more frequently, with the total count for RAM at 39 and TAM at 89 times.
The risk assessment module seems to be used for providing stats about long-term danger, whereas the threat assessment module is about alerting to immediate danger.
My favourite risk assessment moment comes in System Collapse when Murderbot unexpectedly faces Leonide in the separatist's site:
Risk assessment suggested I had a 63 percent chance of pulling this off.
At 3.4 meters away, Leonide halted. I halted, too. Her forehead crinkled and she said, “I recognize you.” Her expression turned incredulous. You’re the SecUnit.”
Well, fuck risk assessment.
Poor risk assessment. It doesn't always have sufficient data to work out the stats, does it?
These two are not necessarily in agreement and they don't necessarily offer explanations.
In Platform Decay, MB says:
The whole point of these modules is to apply sorting and priority rating to incoming data so I don’t have to (or really because a SecUnit with a governor module shouldn’t have the capability). I pulled samples to parse manually but a lot of the alerts were normal low-risk stuff like traffic hazards, petty theft, noise disturbances, etc.
This is a bit (or more that a bit) scary because a normal "governed" SecUnit cannot actively interpret the modules' output, so they just have to react to the stats without thoughts. Unless a HubSystem or a human supervisor in charge does that for them.
Other modules that mentioned include:
Education modules (11 mentions) - MB grouses how shitty they are
Combat override module (20 mentions) - the terrifying module that is installed via data port in behind the neck. It turns SecUnits like a zombie-bots, obeying commands from that. I suppose they also override HubSystem commands via governor modules. Otherwise there could be so many dead units, violating the distance limits.
Piloting module - MB has one for hoppers but not for shuttles. (Three has one for shuttles.)
Murderbot also mentions a combat stealth module (Rogue Protocol), training module (Rogue Protocol), emergency med/psych module (Exit Strategy), and procedure module aka. panic module (System Collapse).
Do you think Murderbot would install more modules (like a shuttle piloting module) or would it keep the ones it already has and opts to download more media? (My money is on the latter!)
It's yet another day on the seemingly interminable four year journey to Erid when Rocky rolls over with the box-in-ball setup of the laptop habitat. "Grace, question?"
(Hatch hadn't been wrong; divine invention or otherwise, time dilation is really a fortunate thing when it comes to interstellar travel. Doesn't stop me from needing the universe to invent a faster version, though. Über-relativity. Turbolight.)
I put aside the jumpsuit I had been half-heartedly working to mend. "What is it?"
Rocky turns the screen to face me. "Grace experience this, question?"
My heartrate kicks up before I even fully process what I'm looking at. It's… the archived Mayo Clinic entry on anxiety disorders, courtesy of Stratt's internet of everything.
"Uh," I say, intelligently. Great going, Grace. "What… what made you look at this?"
"Rocky finish plans for Taumoeba distribution device. Now make manual for care of Grace." Aww. I come second only to the saving of his planet? It'd be heartwarming to hear – it is still heartwarming to hear, even after everything, except that my heart is kinda on overdrive with something else already. "Index all entries first, then translate contents to Eridian in order of relevance."
Probably going in English alphabetical order, even; I'd finally gotten around to the gory workings on spelling somewhere around the second month, helped by the ESL materials I'd found entire folders of (Stratt really had downloaded everything). And "relevance" here can only mean one thing, given the size of Erid's to-be human population.
Rocky is asking if I have anxiety. My best friend that I've almost killed myself more than once saving. Who just happens to be an alien. Who can probably hear the rate at which my heart is going. These feelings of anxiety and panic interfere with daily activities – difficult to control – out of proportion to the actual danger – can last a long time –
I can't even talk. My voice is stuck somewhere too-far down my throat. But I've stayed silent for too long, even by my standards. Especially by my standards.
Rocky hums a reduced version of his question marker, two soft but insistent notes, and sets the laptop down to lean even closer to me.
I gulp and nod through the familiar prickle of tears.
Rocky whines keenly. "Rocky apology. Not realise is out of normal function parameters. Not even think! Would not have made fun of Grace otherwise. Sorry sorry sorry. Rocky bad bad bad."
That, of all things, is what unlocks my words from their dam once more. "Hey. Hey, no, c'mon, there's no way you could've known. And it never bothered me, I know you never meant it that way."
It's apparently the exact wrong thing to say; Rocky lets out what I can only accurately describe as a wail of distress. "But hear that way! Mean to Grace while Grace feel bad bad bad. Why Grace no say, question!?"
The sadness-turned-frustration makes me chuckle despite myself. "It's not your fault my brain panics over barely possible catastrophes or the idea of being perceived, buddy. Heck, I didn't tell anyone back on Earth either."
Sure, everyone and their overworked secondary had known about the social anxiety, but that had been so blindingly obvious it probably wasn't even worth the joke to make.
Rocky emits a rudely discordant noise that just about sums up his general opinion on the non-science aspects of Project Hail Mary. "No understand. Never understand. Any intensive thrum of such length always ensure full review of participant health first. Is rule!"
I try and fail to imagine Stratt giving a flying fishcake about OSHA regulations or workplace wellbeing. "I did tell you that Earth didn't have much time to even figure out survival, right? Forget health and safety." That was kind of how I'd even ended up here after all – move fast, break things, and mess up so badly the blast radius wept metal condensate.
(Clearly Stratt had still known something. I hadn't recalled SSRIs being part of the medical system's drug inventory, but they'd made it in anyway. Or maybe it'd been Dr. Lamai, after that meeting.
I shove away those thoughts for further consideration approximately never.)
"Yes, Grace forget lab safety often," snarks Rocky. He seems to have calmed down a little, or at least enough not to actively puff ammonia from his vents anymore. "What mean, perceive, question?"
I frown a little. I know we've definitely gone over the word – we would've needed it to talk about the whole seeing versus hearing thing, and Rocky doesn't forget. So that rules out the dictionary meaning. Which "being perceived" doesn't technically deviate from, but maybe it's the concept he's struggling with.
I think over our many discussions of Eridian versus human sensory inputs. "You always can hear where everything is, right?"
"Yes! Rocky good good good in perceiving."
"Well, it's kinda different for humans with our field of vision? It limits the angle of things we can perceive at one time. But we do get a sense of when people are looking at us. Feels like an itch at the back of your neck." (I leave aside the part about this sense also being potentially fallible for now. That can wait until we've got the basics down.)
"Interesting. Eridians can infer being perceived by making clarifying waves through ground." He stamps one leg in illustration. "But no direct sense. Grace feel being perceive by Rocky, question?"
That's a fully-loaded cement truck of a question right there. "…I don't think so?" I say, truthfully. Or at least it feels like the truth to me. Knowing that Rocky can hear me regardless of our relative positions on the ship had been a privacy nightmare before I'd gotten desensitised to it, but it'd never been in a way that made my hackles run wild.
Maybe it's because my instincts haven't evolved to register alien attention, especially through a medium so different to ours. Or maybe it's just because this is Rocky.
I guess we'll find out when we get to Erid. Oh boy.
Rocky warbles a dubious arpeggio. He can probably tell that my heart has only slowed to half a mile a minute.
I give the xenonite ball a little bump, not that it actually moves any. "It's all good, okay? I like it that you see me."
I can't remember if we've covered the non-literal uses of "see". Rocky harrumphs anyway. "Rocky no can see. Grace mean to Rocky, question?"
Yup. Definitely making trouble on purpose.
"Grace would never be mean to Rocky," I say solemnly.
"So just bad at make joke." Rocky presses closer as he pulls the laptop over again, never mind the annoyed registers of his voice. "No worry. Rocky will find medicine on thinking machine and add to manual, statement. Grace will not terrorise Erid with not funny Earth humour."
"I'm afraid it's terminaaaaaaal," I moan horribly, flopping onto the ball like a limpet.
Rocky squawks in indignation, scrambling to the other side of it. "Rocky make miracle cure! Send formula to Earth! Become more famous than Rocky from movie!"
"And what about my t-shirts?"
"Rocky make new too. Write Eridian jokes. All of Erid will think Grace funny funny funny and not notice panicking."
I laugh at the mental image. Stratt had technically allowed my t-shirts to all sorts of occasions, but even she might've drawn the line at aliens. "Yeah. Good idea. Maybe put it on one of the dresses, that'll really be a statement."
Systems that Murderbot interacts with (mention frequency count)
(Platform Decay spoilers, but not related to the plot)
I occasionally get the urge (?) to count frequencies of things in the Murderbot Diaries, enter them in a spreadsheet and stare at them.
Former rental SecUnits like Murderbot are designed to be able to interface with various systems, mainly SecSystems but also others. Since Murderbot had to survive as a rogue for so long before finding places and people that it could belong to, it's particularly adept at hacking, convincing, and controlling them. While it was a company unit, the systems it had daily interactions with were HubSystem, SecSystem, and MedSystem.
HubSystem appears to work like a central executive (rather like the one in the classic working memory model), monitoring and controlling SecUnits (and other constructs). It enforced obedience via governor modules. It also acted as a gateway to database when SecUnits had to look up some task-relevant information.
SecSystems are found in any place that requires security, monitoring through cameras, assessing risk/threat when something happens. Murderbot often seems to find them friendly and helpful. SecSystems and SecUnits probably have a natural, strong affinity.
MedSystem used to be something Murderbot used only when it was assisting its clients when they were injured. It sometimes gave instructions when its client wasn't close to a medical facility. It was only after meeting ART that it started using it for itself.
"Other" includes Central (aka AdaCol1) in Network Effect, AdaCol2 in System Collapse.
I didn't include targetControlSystem in Network Effect, as it wasn't a standard System.
These were the main systems that Murderbot regularly interacted with initially. But when it had to go to a place inhabited by groups of humans, it had to interact with multiple systems. There was a sharp increase in such 'other' systems in the latest book.
Barish-Estranza's proprietary model SecUnits like Three probably had never had the experience with interfacing with non-B-E systems. Also, they had a strange augmented human HubSystem which might work in a different way from standard corporate HubSystems. I'm actually quite curious as to why they opted to use augmented humans as their HubSystem.
in my heart MB had a fake old bleach job for all of platform decay. its scary and i hope it changes its hair back to normal soon.
also this was maybe the best scene in the book. maybe it could be a we problem
