i’m on my fourth reread of asr and i didn’t realize until just now that secunit doesn’t really know how to fight at the beginning. i mean 1v1, sure, it can punch and kick and shoot stuff, but it’s so incredibly competent at combat (offensively, and against multiple hostiles in complex environments even) by the end of the series that i completely missed that it didn’t know how to do any of that shit until it met presaux. it really was just kind of a generic security guard until then, for all that it called itself murderbot. even in ganaka pit, we have no reason to believe the humans put up much resistance, and the malware was running the show anyway, so probably it was just shooting at anything that moved and hoping for the best. it literally taught itself how to be an actual murderbot in order to save these specific humans.


























